biography
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Poland, Luke (Potter)
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| lived:
| (1815–87)
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| biography:
| US representative and senator, born in Westford, Vermont, USA. A brilliant, self-taught lawyer, he was a Whig Supreme Court justice in Vermont (1848–65), Republican senator (1865–7), and congressman (1867–75) who revised the statute law of the USA. |
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