Xenophon Huddy

{{Short description|American lawyer (1876–1943)}}

Xenophon Pearce Huddy (1876–1943) was an American lawyer, specializing in automobile law.

Huddy graduated from Yale University{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cms8GXiPXykC&q=XENOPHON+HUDDY&pg=PA323|title=Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut|year=1916|page=323|last1=University|first1=Yale}} cum laude,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C4XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA524|title=Catalogue of the officers and graduates of Yale University|year=1901|page=524|last1=University|first1=Yale}} and was admitted to the New York Bar on January 5, 1906,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0JTOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA285|title=New York supplement By New York (State)|location=Supreme Court, New York (State)|work=Court of Appeals, v. 95 - 1906|last1=University|first1=Yale|year=1910}} after which he became a senior partner in the law practice of MacHenry, Huddy & Cook{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVUYAAAAMAAJ&q=huddy&pg=PA882|title=Who's who in New York (city and state)|issue=3|year=1907|page=882|author1=Lewis Randolph Hamersly |author2=John W. Leonard |author3=William Frederick Mohr |author4=Herman Warren Knox |author5=Frank R. Holmes |author6=Winfield Scott Downs }} with partners Charles Ainsworth MacHenry and Philip R. Cook at 309 Broadway, New York City. By 1906, he was a regular contributor to Horseless Age, and lectured before the Automobile Club of America,{{cite journal |url=http://69.94.20.205/read.php?doc=../Library/Horseless_Age/1906/page_0316.pdf&search=%22xenophon%22 |journal=The Horseless Age |volume= 17 |issue= 4 |url-access=subscription |title=Subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726143216/https://www.hcfi.org/read.php?doc=../Library/Horseless_Age/1906/page_0316.pdf&search=%22xenophon%22 |archive-date=2011-07-26}}{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/01/22/101425681.pdf|title=Automobile Notes of Interest|work=New York Times|date=January 22, 1906}} among others. In his legal practice, he was known for his opinions on automobile law, and argued pro-motorist cases in court.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xClhG6eV7gAC&q=Xenophon+P.Huddy&pg=RA2-PT23|title=Progress of New Jersey Test Case|journal=The Horseless Age|volume=21|year=1908}} His 1906 book, [https://archive.org/details/lawautomobiles00huddgoog The Law Of Automobiles], and writings are considered the first serious legal opinions on the philosophy of automobile law,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hoFKI-yodUQC&q=Xenophon+P.Huddy&pg=RA1-PA179|title=Down the Asphalt Path|author=Clay McShane|year=1994|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0231083912}} and were important in informing later legal thinking.

He was a descendant of American Revolutionary War Capt. Joshua Huddy, and lectured on Revolutionary War topics. Evidence exists that he later became a judge.

Mrs. Xenophon Huddy testified before Congress on Prohibition.[http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1920/senj1926/npltoc.htm 1926 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on National Prohibition] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620091030/http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1920/senj1926/npltoc.htm |date=June 20, 2010 }}