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" Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and... "
Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ... - Page 27
by United States. Bureau of Education - 1888
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Our Countrymen: Or, Brief Memoirs of Eminent Americans

Benson John Lossing - 1855 - 410 pages
...thoroughly re-established civil government. After the war he was made judge of the Court of Chancery. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States; and in 1789, was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court of the Republic, as associate justice....
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Notes on Duels and Duelling: Alphabetically Arranged with a Preliminary ...

Lorenzo Sabine - 1855 - 414 pages
...prisoner, and was refused the privilege even of following to the tomb the remains of his only son. He was a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and exerted great influence in procuring its adoption by the people of South Carolina. The affection...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 16

Georgia. Supreme Court - 1855 - 700 pages
...of the Criminal Law. > • • Boston & Gunby iw. Cummins, claimant. Mr. Justice Paterson, who was a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, in Colder and Wife vs. Bell and Wife, says that he had an ardent desire to have extended the ex post...
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Our Countrymen: Or, Brief Memoirs of Eminent Americans

Benson John Lossing - 1855 - 418 pages
...thoroughly re-established civil government. After the war ho was made judge of the Court of Chancery. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States; and in 1789, was elevated to the bench of the Supremo Court of the Republic, as associate justice....
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Eminent Americans: Comprising Brief Biographies of Leading Statesmen ...

1857 - 432 pages
...theroughly re-established civil government. After the war he was made judge of the Court of Chaucery. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States; and in 1789, was elevated to the bench of th:? Supreme Court of the Republie, as associate justice....
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Eminent Americans: Comprising Brief Biographies of Three Hundred and Thirty ...

1857 - 426 pages
...thoroughly re-established civil government. After the war ho was made judge of the Court of Chancery. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States; and in 1789, was elevated to the bench of the .Supreme Court of the Republic, as associate justice....
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The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General ..., Volume 16

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1858 - 944 pages
...constitution of hb native state, in 1777 was appointed judiv the supreme court of New York, and in IX was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States. Hi* notes of the secret proceedings and debates a' this convention were printed after hi« deatk In...
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The Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr: With Outlines of the Political ...

Dan King - 1859 - 382 pages
...conducive to their welfare." Justice Wilson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States, and afterwards one of the judges of the Supreme Court, says, " Of the right of a majority of the whole...
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History of Independence Hall: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time ...

David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 pages
...He was one of the signers of our Liberty. 8. RICHARD HRNRV LEE — Born 1722 — died 1794. He was a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. 9. SAMPEL HCNTINOTOS — Governor of Connecticut. He succeeded John Jay as President of Congress. 10....
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Our Living Representative Men

John Savage - 1860 - 518 pages
...Dublin, Ireland,) was a man of distinguished ability, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, a Judge of the Court of Appeals in Admiralty under the Confederation, a Senator in the First Congress,...
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