biography
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| (1744–1823)
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| biography:
| Law professor, jurist and writer, born in Brookhaven, New York, USA. In 1763 he graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton), became a teacher there (1764–71), and then practised law in Litchfield, CT. In 1784 he established the Litchfield Law School, one of the first two law schools in America and for many years the most influential. When he became a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court (1798–1814), he assigned many of the school's functions to James Gould. Reeve was a staunch Federalist who was once indicted (1801) for having libelled President Jefferson in one of his vitriolic newspaper articles. Also a devout Christian, he was responsible for bringing the Reverend Lyman Beecher to Litchfield. He wrote extensively on the law. |
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