biography
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Curtis, George Ticknor
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| lived:
| (1812–94)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and historian, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, then practised law in Worcester and Boston and was patent attorney for, among others, Samuel F B Morse. He opposed slavery and served as defence attorney in the Dred Scott case (1857), in which the US Supreme Court held slaves were not citizens and thus had no constitutional protection. He wrote two studies vindicating failed Union General George B McClellan (1886, 1887) and later produced important works on constitutional history. |
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