biography
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| lived:
| (1694–1778)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Purleigh, Essex, SE England, UK. Admitted to the Middle Temple in London (1724), he had emigrated to New York by 1731. He used contacts from England to obtain a seat on the New York Supreme Court. Known as a ‘political jurist’, he lost all his offices in a shift of political fortune in 1747. He recovered lost ground, however, and returned to the New York Supreme Court (1753), becoming its chief justice (1763), though in his later years illness prevented him from carrying out his duties. |
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