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    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...
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  • Benjamin or Ben Curtis may refer to: Benjamin Curtis (musician) (1978–2013), American musician Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), American jurist Ben...
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    did not earn a law degree. Woodbury's successor on the Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, who received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1832, and...
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  • Justice Curtis refers to Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Curtis may also refer...
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  • Justices Benjamin Robbins Curtis and John McLean were the only dissenters from the Court's decision, and they both wrote dissenting opinions. Curtis's 67-page...
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    Journal. 50 (10): 932–937. JSTOR 25722968. Curtis, Benjamin R., ed. (2002) [1879]. A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D. with some of his Professional...
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    nationally known architect and designer of the Watertown town seal Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), American jurist. Dissented in the Dred Scott case...
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  • Court in 1857. His brother, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, was notable as one of the two dissenters in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Curtis wrote biographies of Daniel...
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  • Emerson and Other Essays, translator of Dante, Sophocles Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1829) – associate justice of the US Supreme Court Richard Henry...
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  • expelled from the Whig Party shortly after taking office in 1841. Benjamin Robbins Curtis was the lone Whig to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States...
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    recess appointment of Benjamin Robbins Curtis to the Court. In December, with Congress convened, Fillmore formally nominated Curtis, who was confirmed....
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    August 10, 1846 – January 31, 1870 (Retired) 23 years, 174 days 32 Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874) MA Associate Justice Woodbury December 20, 1851 (Acclamation)...
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    Pennsylvania state District Court for Allegheny County (1833–1846) 28 Benjamin Robbins Curtis 2nd Woodbury December 20, 1851 (Acclamation) October 10, 1851 –...
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  • former Associate Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis argued unsuccessfully the case on behalf of Virginia before the Court. Curtis, as an Associate Justice...
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    Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George T. Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Isaac Edward Morse, Benjamin Peirce, George W. Richardson...
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    January 5, 1881 May 14, 1887 93 Benjamin N. Cardozo 2,308 6 years, 117 days March 14, 1932 July 9, 1938 94 Benjamin Robbins Curtis 2,182 5 years, 355 days October...
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    first person on the Supreme Court to hold that distinction was Benjamin Robbins Curtis, the 32nd person appointed to the Court. "Justices 1789 to Present"...
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    did not receive a law degree. Woodbury's successor on the court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1832, and was appointed...
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  • Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean stage actor (d. 1833) 1809 – Benjamin Robbins Curtis, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1874) 1816 – Stephen Johnson Field...
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  • 1828 Yale College Ralph Waldo Emerson 1828 Harvard University Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1829 Harvard University Lorenzo Langstroth 1831 Yale College Asa...
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  • the dissenting Benjamin Robbins Curtis mentioned or relied upon the Court's previous discussion of due process in Murray, and Curtis disagreed with Taney...
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  • Pennsylvania 1957–67. Great-grandnephew of Andrew Gregg Curtin. Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United...
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  • was dedicating most of his time to patent law cases. Storrow and Benjamin Robbins Curtis represented William Beach Lawrence in his long-running copyright...
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    Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson (category Benjamin Butler)
    during the trial. The president's defense team was made up of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, William M. Evarts, William S. Groesbeck, Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson...
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    September 20, 1845 December 23, 1845 Confirmed January 3, 1846 Benjamin Robbins Curtis Fillmore September 22, 1851 December 11, 1851 Confirmed December...
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    Andrew Fiske), and Mary Gardiner (married Supreme Court justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis). In the autumn of 1855, months after the birth of her youngest...
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    He first settled in Cambridge and joined the Boston law firm of Benjamin Robbins Curtis. There he became active in local institutions. Hubbard helped establish...
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  • Crowninshield (1872–1947), creator and editor of Vanity Fair magazine Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), United States Supreme Court justice Charlotte Cushman...
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    12 – Julius von Bose, Prussian general (d. 1894) November 4 – Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d...
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    dissenting Justices to the majority vote, the other being Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis. Justice McLean cited Marie Louise v. Marot, an 1835 freedom suit...
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