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Jasper Yeates Brinton (born in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on October 5, 1878 and died on August 12, 1973). Brinton was the great great grandson of William Smith (Episcopal priest) who was the first provost of the College of Philadelphia, which became the University of Pennsylvania, and helped collect, organize, and donate information about his ancestor to Historical Society of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania. Brinton graduated University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1904. After graduation, he practiced admiralty law in Philadelphia and then served as an Assistant United States Attorney. During World War I he trained as an officer in Plattsburgh, New York, served in office of United States Army Provost Marshal General in Washington, D.C., and served as a judge advocate general in France with the American Expeditionary Force. His experience during the war to end all wars and connections he made in France (including French language skills) led to his appointment in 1921 by Egypt's then sultan soon to be monarch, Fuad I of Egypt (فؤاد الأول Fu’ād al-Awwal I. Fuad or Ahmed Fuad Paşa) (with the approval of the United States government) as a Justice of the Mixed Courts of Egypt (Arabic: المحكمة الدستورية العليا, Al Mahkama Al Dustūrīya El ‘Ulyā)

Brinton was a Justice of the Mixed Courts of Egypt from 1921 through 1948 (and was appointed as president of the court in 1943). . In 1948, he was appointed to the United States Foreign Service reserve and assigned as an attorney to counsel the United States Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. In Brinton's The New York Times 1973 obituary, it was reported that Brinton's book, “The Mixed Courts of Egypt,” (published by the Yale University Press in 1930), was praised by Henry Morgenthau, Sr., a former ambassador to Turkey, for showing how “the protection of foreign interests has been reconciled with the claims of Egyptian national pride.” Morganthau praised Brinton and reported confidently that the United States had “contributed equally with the other great powers of the world in making possible. . . success” of the Mixed Courts of Egypt