biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1808–95)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Somers, Connecticut, USA. He served in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Pennsylvania, 1847–51) then returned to practise law. He sat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1850–68) before President Grant named him to the US Supreme Court (1870–80). |
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