Charles Edward Roach (1874 - 1935) was an alumnus of Georgetown University, a lawyer, and professor at Georgetown Law School. He earned three degrees from Georgetown: an A.B. in 1895, an LL. B. in 1897, and an LL. M. in 1898.
Roach was born on November 17, 1874 to William N. Roach and Mary Frances Liebermann in Washington, D.C. His father, also a Georgetown alumnus (1859), had been a United States Senator from North Dakota while his maternal grandfather had been the first chair of surgery at the Georgetown University Medical Department when it was established in 1850.
Before entering Georgetown, Roach was educated at public schools in both Washington and North Dakota. While attending law school, he was a clerk at the law firm of Hamilton & Colbert.1
While an undergraduate, Roach was a football player and active debater. As a professor he was involved with a number of Law School organizations. During World War I he was a captain of the quartermaster corps of the army.
He had seven children including Charles E. Roach, Jr., who was an alumnus of the School of Foreign Service.
Charles Edward Roach, Sr., died in 1935 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.2
- 1James S. Easby-Smith, Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, 1789-1907, its founders, benefactors, officers, instructors and alumni. Vol. 2, New York: Lewis, 1907, pp. 294 - 295. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433076015860?urlappend=%3Bseq=310
- 2"G.U. Law School Loses Professors," The Hoya, May 1, 1935, Vol. XVI No. 25, pp. 1, 11. http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1047561
