Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 1809-1874
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Name (Hebrew)
קרטיס, בנג'מין רובינס, 1809-1874
Name (Latin)
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 1809-1874
Other forms of name
Curtis, B. R. (Benjamin Robbins), 1809-1874
Date of birth
1809-11-04
Date of death
1874-09-15
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Minnesota state bonds, 1871:t.p. (Benjamin R. Curtis)
- NUC pre-56(hdg.: Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 1809-1874; usage: Benjamin R. Curtis; B.R. Curtis; Benjamin Robbins Curtis)
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Wikipedia description:
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (November 4, 1809 – September 15, 1874) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857. Curtis was the first and only Whig justice of the Supreme Court, and he was the first Supreme Court justice to have a formal law degree. He is often remembered as one of the two dissenters in the Supreme Court's infamous 1857 decision Dred Scott v. Sandford. Curtis resigned from the Supreme Court in 1857 to return to private legal practice in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1868, Curtis was President Andrew Johnson's defense lawyer during Johnson's impeachment trial.
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