VII. They Were Here
In 1928, William Howard Taft, the former U.S. President, and Benjamin N. Cardozo, who would join the Supreme Court four years later, received Honorary Membership in the Association. (A City Bar rule states that one can only receive the honor in person.) In the following decades, other towering legal figures would visit the City Bar for the same purpose or to receive other Association honors, or to deliver Association lectures, including one named after Justice Cardozo, or, as in the case of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965, at the invitation of one of the Association’s committees.




