Journal of Supreme Court History

101. James Shanklin graduated from Princeton University in 1883, apprenticed law with the firm of Melville W. Fuller in Chicago from 1884 to 1888, and joined the bar in 1886. He worked in the firms of Gregory, Gould & Harlan and Harlan & Harlan. President McKinley appointed him Attorney General of Puerto Rico from 1901 to 1903. He was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1908 by Roosevelt and reappointed by Taft in 1911. He became chairman of the ICC in 1914.