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83 Ky. L.J. 485 (1994-1995)
In Search of the Solicitor General's Clients: A Drama with Many Characters

handle is hein.journals/kentlj83 and id is 495 raw text is: LECTURE In Search of the Solicitor General's Clients: A Drama with Many Characters* BY DREw S. DAYS Ill** I want, first, to express my sincerest appreciation for the invitation to deliver the Ninth Judge Mac Swinford Lecture at the University of Kentucky College of Law. It is a pleasure for me to get out of Washing- ton for a change - to begin with, to remind myself of what life is like outside of the Beltway. I also saw this as an opportunity to see friends here at the law school whom I can no longer plan on encountering each year at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, since I am on leave from my law faculty. But, most importantly, there is a certain rightness, I think, in being here as the Fortieth Solicitor General, since the first person to occupy my position was Benjamin H. Bristow, a Kentuckian.1 Benjamin H. Bristow, the first Solicitor General of the United States, was one of the leading lawyers of his generation. A Kentuckian, he served as a colonel during the Civil War. He later became United States Attorney for the District of Kentucky, where he was renowned for his vigor in enforcing the federal Civil Rights Acts.2 Before becoming Solicitor General in 1870, he practiced law with his fellow Kentuckian and future Supreme Court Justice, the first John Marshall Harlan.3 * This is an edited and embellished version of the Ninth Judge Mac Swinford Lecture, delivered at the University of Kentucky College of Law on November 10, 1994. ** Solicitor General of the United States. 1 BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECrORY OF THE UNrrED STATES EXEcUTvE BRANCH, 1774- 1971, at 35-36 (Robert Sobel ed., 1971). 2 Douglas L. Colbert Challenging the Challenge: Thirteenth Amendment as a Prohibition Against the Racial Use of Peremptory Challenges, 76 CORNElL L. REV. 1, 53 n.250 (1990). 3 BIOGRAPHICAL DIREyTORY OF THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE BRANCH, supra

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