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JAMES JOSEPH DUANE, (Professor), born Buffalo, New York, July 30, 1959; admitted to bar, 1985, New York.
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He was born near Buffalo, New York, and is a descendant of Judge James Duane of New York, the first judge appointed to the newly-created federal judiciary by President George Washington in 1789.
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