The Fathers of the Constitution

Max Farrand, Ph. D. (1869-1945) was an American university professor and writer on historical subjects, born at Newark, N. J., brother of Livingston Farrand. He graduated from Princeton (A. B., 1892; Ph. D., 1896). Afterwards he held various positions at a number of institutions of higher learning, including Wesleyan University, Leland Stanford Junior University, Cornell, and Yale. Professor Farrand made contributions to historical publications, and he wrote: Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Organized Territories of the United States, 1789-1895 (1896), Translation of Jellinek's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (1901), Records of Federal Convention of 1787 (three volumes, 1911), The Framing of the Constitution of the United States (1913), Development of the United States (1918) and The Fathers of the Constitution (1921).