Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Politician
1809 – 1874
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Who was Benjamin Robbins Curtis?
Benjamin Robbins Curtis was an American attorney and United States Supreme Court Justice.
Curtis was the first and only Whig justice of the Supreme Court. He was also the first Supreme Court justice to have a formal legal degree and is the only justice to have resigned from the court over a matter of principle. He successfully acted as chief counsel for President Andrew Johnson during the first presidential impeachment trial and is notable as one of the two dissents in the Dred Scott decision.
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- Born
- Nov 4, 1809
Watertown - Siblings
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Christian Unitarianism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard Law School
- Harvard University
- Died
- Sep 15, 1874
Newport - Resting place
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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