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16 A.B.A. J. 624 (1930)
Our New President

handle is hein.journals/abaj16 and id is 632 raw text is: OUR NEW PRESIDENT JOSIAH MARVEL of Wilmington, Del., was called on to lead the American Bar Association during the coming year by virtue of his election as President at the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting at Chicago. It is no untried experiment upon which he is entering. For many years his qualities of leadership have been recognized and have been ex- ercised both in the American Bar Association, the Delaware Bar Association, of which he was the first President, and the various other organizations to which he belongs. It was only natural that in due season he should be drafted to fill the highest position which the Bar can bestow upon one of its members. Our new President knows the American Bar Association as only one can know it who has taken an active official and unofficial part in its workings. He was member of the General Council for three years, during one of which he was chairman of that governing body-a position which carries with it membership on the Executive Committee. During 1927-28 he was Chairman of the Conference of Bar Association Delegates. Previously he was chair- man of that section's committee on the Rule-Mak- ing Power of the Courts, and many will recall the pamphlet issued by the committee on that subject and published as a supplement to the March, 1927, issue of the JOURNAL. This supplement, principally due to the chairman's energy and initiative, was long in great demand and undoubtedly played a great part in stimulating the interest of the pro- fession in this reform. Mr. Marvel brings to his position the extremely desirable qualification of a wide acquaintance with problems of the profession throughout the country. He has made a number of addresses at State Bar Association meetings during recent years and is in touch with the attitude and interests of those or- ganizations. The time has long since passed when the presidency of the. American Bar Association was.a position the authority and influence of which were to be strictly construed. It is recognized today as involving the leadership of the whole. pro- fession in the great task of improving the admin- istratioit of justice and upholding correct standards. In measuring up to that responsibility it is obvious that the incumbent will be greatly aided by a wide acquaintance with what State and local organiza- tions are doing and thinking. The manifold public activities which are merely hinted at above have been carried on in spite of the exacting demands made upon the active head of a busy law office. And in spite even of these activities, Mr. Marvel has found time to indulge in authorship. He is the author of Marvel on Dela- ware Corporations and Receiverships, a book which is in general use by lawyers who represent Delaware corporations throughout the country. The following extract from an article in a Wil- mington newspaper, printed on receipt of the news that he had been elected President of the American Bar Association, gives other interesting details of the life and career of our new President: Admitted to the bar in 1894, Mr. Marvel is one of the leading attorneys of the State. He was elected the first president of the Delaware State Bar Association in 1922, when it was organized, and was re-elected for two succeeding terms. Mr. Marvel was born on a farm near George- town on January 18, 1866, the son of Josiah P. and Harriett M. (Pepper) Marvel. At the age of 16 years he became a school teacher and five years later -he registered as a law student in the office of the late Judge George Gray. The inheritance tax law and the child labor law of Delaware were drafted by Mr. Marvel, while he supervised the drafting of the income tax law and the State highway law. During the World War he was chairman of the Committee on Patriotic War Addresses, chair- man of the Third Liberty Loan Drive, chairman of the Victory Loan campaign, chairman of the Red Cross campaign and Temporary Food Admin- istrator. Among other posts held by Mr. Marvel have been the following: Chairman of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Committee; chairman of the Battleship Delaware Committee; first president of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce; president of the Men's Club of Trinity Church; president of the Associated Charities; president of the Boys Scout Council; president of the Lincoln Club of Philadelphia; chairman of the State Horse Show Committee and director of the Delaware State Fair. A loaning fund for students of Delaware Col- lege was established some years ago by Mr. Marvel. He has been a member of the State Highway Com- mission. Among the organizations to which he belongs are the Wilmington Rotary Club, the Wil- mington Club, the Wilmington Country Club, Dela- ware Grange, the Farm Bureau of New Castle County, Wilmington Lodge, No. 307, B. P. 0. Elks, and others. In 1908 Mr Marvel was chairman of the George Gray Presidential Committee at the Demo- cratic National Convention. 624

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