William Johnson Jr. was an American attorney,state legislator,and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1804 until his death in 1834. When he was 32 years old,Johnson was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Thomas Jefferson. He was the first Jeffersonian Republican member of the Court as well as the second Justice from the state of South Carolina. During his tenure,Johnson restored the act of delivering seriatim opinions. He wrote about half of the dissents during the Marshall Court,leading historians to nickname him the "first dissenter".
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the New York Court of Appeals from 1914 to 1932 and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1932 until his death in 1938. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century,in addition to his philosophy and vivid prose style.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis 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.
Edward Douglass White Jr. was an American politician and jurist. White,a native of Louisiana,was a U.S. Supreme Court justice for 27 years,first as an associate justice from 1894 to 1910,then as the ninth chief justice from 1910 until his death in 1921. White is known for siding with the Supreme Court majority in Plessy v. Ferguson,which upheld the legality of state segregation.
George Henry Williams was an American judge and politician. He served as chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,was the 32nd Attorney General of the United States,and was elected Oregon's U.S. senator,and served one term. Williams,as U.S. senator,authored and supported legislation that allowed the U.S. military to be deployed in Reconstruction of the southern states to allow for an orderly process of re-admittance into the United States. Williams was the first presidential Cabinet member to be appointed from the Pacific Coast. As attorney general under President Ulysses S. Grant,Williams continued the prosecutions that shut down the Ku Klux Klan. He had to contend with controversial election disputes in Reconstructed southern states. President Grant and Williams legally recognized P. B. S. Pinchback as the first African American state governor. Williams ruled that the Virginius,a gun-running ship delivering men and munitions to Cuban revolutionaries,which was captured by Spain during the Virginius Affair,did not have the right to bear the U.S. flag. However,he also argued that Spain did not have the right to execute American crew members. Nominated for Supreme Court Chief Justice by President Grant,Williams failed to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate primarily due to Williams's opposition to U.S. Attorney A. C. Gibbs,his former law partner,who refused to stop investigating Republican fraud in the special congressional election that resulted in a victory for Democrat James Nesmith.
Franklin Israel Moses Jr. was a South Carolina lawyer and editor who became active as a Republican politician in the state during the Reconstruction Era. He was elected to the legislature in 1868 and as governor in 1872,serving into 1874. Enemies labelled him the 'Robber Governor'.
Franklin J. Moses Sr. was an attorney,planter,politician and judge in South Carolina. He served as a state senator from 1841 to 1866,when he was elected to the circuit court. He was elected as Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court in 1868 during the Reconstruction era. In 1876 he was asked to rule on a challenge to election returns in the hotly disputed gubernatorial campaign,eventually won by Democrat Wade Hampton and ending Republican domination in the state.
Francis Lewis Cardozo was an American clergyman,politician,and educator. When elected in South Carolina as Secretary of State in 1868,he was the first African American to hold a statewide office in the United States.
John Faucheraud Grimké was an American jurist who served as Associate justice and Senior Associate Justice of South Carolina's Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions from 1783 until his death. He also served in the South Carolina state legislature from 1782 until 1790. He was intendant (mayor) of Charleston,South Carolina,for two terms,from 1786 to 1788.
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John Rutledge Jr. was an American Founding Father,politician,and jurist who served as one of the original associate justices of the Supreme Court and the second chief justice of the United States. Additionally,he served as the first president of South Carolina and later as its first governor after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
James Moore Wayne was an American attorney,judge and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1835 to 1867. He previously served as the sixteenth mayor of Savannah,Georgia,from 1817 to 1819 and the member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's at-large congressional district from 1829 to 1835,when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Events from the year 1811 in the United States.
Ammiel J. Willard was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Albany,New York in 1822. He studied law under Willis Hall,the attorney-general of New York,before being made assistant counsel of New York City in 1848.
John Belton O'Neall (1793–1863) was an American judge who served on the precursor to the South Carolina Supreme Court. He is remembered for writing the digest The Negro Law of South Carolina.
George Washington Stone was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1856 to 1864,and then again from 1876 to 1884;and was then Chief Justice of that court from 1884 to 1894.
Asa Owen Aldis was a Vermont attorney,judge and diplomat. He served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court,and as U.S. Consul to Nice,France.
John Preston Hampton was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1818 until his death in 1829.
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