Alpheus Henry Snow

Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1859, Alpheus Henry Snow became an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his work in international law. Available biographical sources describe him as educated at Trinity College, Yale, and Harvard Law School, and as a writer with a strong interest in public law and the structure of political authority.

Snow is remembered especially for books and studies that examined colonies, dependencies, and the constitutional position of overseas territories. His work engaged with questions that were central to the United States in the years after the Spanish-American War, including how law should apply in places such as the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico.

He died in 1920. Although he is not widely read today, his writings capture a serious effort to think through the legal and moral problems of American expansion and the wider rules governing relations between states.