Edward Eugene Reilly ’26

Edward died on May 23, 2000. He left Princeton his freshman year and in 1926 graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown Law School with an LLB degree. He was editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Journal. He then returned to Princeton and acquired a bachelor's in history in 1933 and a master's in politics in 1936. He also passed the preliminary exam for a PhD degree in politics.

Ed practiced law in Trenton, N.J., but entered government service in a legal capacity. He was an attorney for the Unemployment Compensation Commission of N.J. and then became the principal attorney for the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. He was a member of the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ed took great interest in various Catholic organizations in and around Chicago. He has no next of kin and he lived in Cashiers, N.C., at the time of his death.

I think the following verse from "Old Nassau" should be repeated here:

"And when these walls in dust are laid

With reverence and awe

Another throng shall breathe our song

In praise of Old Nassau."

The Class of 1926