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Ambrose Tighe (S&B 1879)

Lawyer. Adelphi Academy. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Yale Law Review. Delta Kappa. Psi Upsilon. PhiBeta Kappa. New York City University. The Informal Club

Tighe was very well-connected, considered to be one the social elites in St. Paul at the turn of the twentieth century. [10]

He was one of the five co-founders of William Mitchell College of Law.

One of his many affiliations was with The Informal Club, a small organization whose members included James J. Hill, Cass Gilbert, Judge Walter Henry Sanborn, General Wesley Merritt, Congressman Thomas Wilson, and Justice William B. Mitchell (son, William D. Mitchell, Delta Kappa Epsilon and on joint congressional committee investigation into attack on Pearl Harbour[5]).[10]

Tighe (S&B 1879) was also close with President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) and U.S. Solicitor General Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (S&B 1879).

Since 1926 - Fairbanks, Morse & Company and for a number Minnesota counties and municipalities, including the city of St Paul (1920 to 1928).

1919 to 1920, Vice President, 1920 to 1921, President Minnesota Bar Association.

1917 to 1919 - Special assistant attorney-general of Minnesota and counsel for Minnesota Commission of Public Safety.

Since 1915 - Secretary of the General Investment Company and of Gotzian Land Company.

1904 to 1915 - Vice-President of C. Gotzian & Company, shoe manufacturers. (served as legal representative of the owners and then president).

1904 to 1915 - Vice-President and counsel of Security Trust Company.[7]

1904 - Organised and became first vice-president of Luger Lumber Company.[7] and counsel until 1918.

1903 to 1909 - Minnesota House of Representative.[4,15]

Since 1900 - General Counsel for Eastman Kodak Company.[4,8]

1899 - Member of the St. Paul Charter Commission, which prepared the charter which constitutes the present municipal code of St. Paul, and of commissions that drafted the charter of 1900, and the amendments of 1904;.

8 Jan 1892 - Practiced before the United States Supreme Court, by motion of William Howard Taft (S&B1978)

1890 to 1892, Secretary, 1900, President - Ramsey County Bar Association.

1890 - named General Counsel for Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.[4,15]

1889 - made receiver of Brainerd Water Company and reorganised it as Minnestota Water Works Company, became it’s President and owner in 1900, until 1915.[7]

1886 - Specialized in municipal and life insurance law.[7]

1894, reorganised with other, St. Paul & Suburban Railway Company (electric), which was later purchased by Duluth, Red Wing & Southern Railroad Company and became its president.

1882 to 1885 - Roman History and Law in Yale College.[7]

1880 to 1882 - Studying political and statistical history in the Graduate School.[7]

1880 - Douglas Fellow at Yale.[7]

1879 to 1880 - Private Tutor in Frankfort.[7]

Published, The Development of the Roman Constitution.

1979 - New York Tribune.[7]

1879 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 11 Nov 1928, from acute insomnia and nervous collapse of three month’s duration. Age 68.

Note: Son … Laurence Gotzian Tighe (S&B 1916) Grandson Sons … Laurence Gotizan Tighe Jr. (S&B1941), Richard Lodge Tighe (S&B1923)

His grandfather was an Episcopalian missionary, who had emigrated from Northern Ireland in the ninteenth century.[4,2]

[1] - Book - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Book - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley