Benjamin Robbins Curtis papers, 1831-1879.

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Greenough, William W. (William Whitwell), -1899

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Merchant, politician. Trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1856-1899. From the description of Letters received, 1850-1892. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14707184 Written while Greenough (A. B. 1837) was a student at Harvard. From the description of Rudiments of a grammar of the Anglo-Saxon tongue ; A Moeso-Gothic grammar : manuscript, 1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612827421 Merchant and public official of Boston, Mass.; born ...

Campbell, John Archibald, 1811-1889

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Lawyer and state legislator, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama; associate judge, U.S. Supreme Court, 1853-1861; assistant secretary of war, Confederate Army, 1862-1865. From the description of Papers, 1865 Jan.-April. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27989428 John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889), Justice U.S. Supreme Court (1853-1861). From the description of John Archibald Campbell papers, 1842-1843, 1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38...

Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864

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Roger Taney was Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1853. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191048726 American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Baltimore, to J. Kennedy Furlong, 1855 May 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574484 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Baltimore, to M. St. Clair Clarke, 1842 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Baldwin, Roger S. (Roger Sherman), 1793-1863

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American lawyer, politician, and Senator from Connecticut. From the guide to the Roger Sherman Baldwin papers, 1849, 1852, 1853, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Nelson, Samuel, 1792-1873

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Nelson served as associate justice of the New York State Supreme Court (1831-1837), chief justice (1837-1845), and as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1845-1872). From the description of Letters, 1852, 1869. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339826 Epithet: American judge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x000031 Jurist. From the description ...

Bell, Charles Henry, 1823-1893

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Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 1809-1874

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Curtis was a graduate of Harvard College (1829), attended Harvard Law School (1829-1830, 1832), was associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1851-1857) and acted as counsel to Andrew Johnson during his impeachment trial (1868). From the description of Legal opinions, ca. 1858-1868. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338978 Epithet: Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person :...

Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894

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Curtis was a graduate of Harvard Law School (1834) and brother of Benjamin Robbins Curtis. From the description of Letter regarding Dred Scott case, 19 December 1856. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236049551 George Ticknor Curtis was an American lawyer and historian. Born in Watertown, Massachusetts, he was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He practiced law and served a term in the Massachusetts House,...

Scott, Dred, 1809-1858

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