(May 29, 2014 at 2:20 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 29, 2014 at 1:53 pm)Cato Wrote: Oh yeah? Who? I know of two that didn't take a degree, but both studied. One was denied a degree only because he was underage.
James F Byrnes never graduated High School and never attended college or law school.
Disingenuous fact and ultimately meaningless in this discussion:
Quote: He later apprenticed to a lawyer – a not uncommon practice then – read for the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1903.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Byrnes
You also conveniently left out the constitutional law experience he gained by serving in Congress for over two decades.