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          Lloyd Paul Stryker

          American lawyer

          Lloyd Paul Stryker (5 June 1885 – June 1955) was a 20th-century American attorney known as a "flamboyant criminal lawyer" and "perhaps the most celebrated criminal lawyer since Clarence Darrow", best known as chief of defense in the first criminal trial of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1949.[1][2]

          Background

          He was born on June 5, 1885, in Chicago to Melancthon Woolsey Stryker (a Presbyterian minister) and Elizabeth Goss.

          He had five siblings. In 1906 (or 1907), he received a BA from Hamilton College, where his father was president.

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          In 1909, he received an MA in law from New York Law School.[3] In 1933, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters.[1]

          Career

          In 1909, he was admitted to the New York bar.

          From 1910 to 1922, he was assistant district attorney in New York County. In 1914 (or 1912), he received the Republican nomination for judge of the New York City Court. He then formed the law firm of Wh