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A learned lawyer. Many historians credit Andrew Hamilton with being the one who, through his successful defense of John Peter Zenger, not only established in the New World the freedom of the press but also created the appellation you here have enjoyed of being 'Philadelphia Lawyers.'' Lloyd Wright, The President's Annual Address: Milestones and Concepts of the Lawyer Citizen, 41 A.B.A.J. 797 (1955).