Norton Clapp, a rich lumber businessman and later the head of the Boy Scouts of America, earned his undergraduate degree in 1928 and his law degree in 1929 at the University of Chicago. He then worked as a lawyer from 1929 to 1942 in which Puget Sound port city, where his family ran their timber company?

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Tacoma, Washington. Norton Clapp took his 1928 undergraduate degree and 1929 law degree at the University of Chicago, then practised law from 1929 to 1942 in Tacoma, Washington, where his family ran the giant Weyerhaeuser timber company. He later ran the Boy Scouts of America as national president from 1962 to 1965, and is buried in Tacoma below Mount Rainier.