Hudson Snowden Marshall

Hudson Snowden Marshall (January 15, 1870 – May 29, 1931) was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1915 to 1917.

Early life Hudson Snowden Marshall was born on January 15, 1870, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a son of Sarah Rebecca Nicholls ( Snowden) Marshall (1840–1929) and Colonel Charles Marshall (1830-1902), a Confederate Adjutant and aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee. He had one sister, Emily Rosalie Snowden Marshall (wife of Judge Somerville Pinkney Tuck), and three brothers, James Markham Marshall, Robert Edward Lee Marshall, and Charles Alexander Marshall.

His paternal grandparents were Maria Rose ( Taylor) Marshall and Alexander John Marshall, nephew of Chief Justice John Marshall. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Snowden and Ann Rebecca ( Nicholls) Snowden. Through his sister, he was uncle to diplomat Somerville Pinkney Tuck, and businessman Alexander John Marshall Tuck.

After primary school in Baltimore, he attended Maupin's School in Ellicott City, Maryland, before attending the University of Virginia, from where he graduated in 1890.

In the Spring of 1913, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Marshall the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He served until the end of his term in May 1917. While in office, he said "most of the bankruptcies in New York are dishonest, with perjury rampant. State legislation is needed to supplement the Federal statutes and to give the authorities further power to deal criminally with the prevalent fraud in business failures." Marshall retired from office to resume the practice of law with Parker, Marshall, Miller Auchincloss & Randall with Alton B. Parker, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1904. After Parker's death in 1926, the firm became Marshall & Auchincloss, the other members being Gordon Auchincloss (son-in-law of Edward M. House), After a funeral held at the Church of the Incarnation on East 35th Street, he was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. He left a net estate worth $137,812, which went to his widow, Isabel, and on her death, to three nieces and two nephews.