biography
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Peckham, Rufus Wheeler
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| lived:
| (1838–1909)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Albany, New York, USA. He served on New York's supreme court (1883–6) and court of appeals (1886–95). President Grover Cleveland named him to the US Supreme Court (1896–1909), where he wrote almost 400 opinions. |
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