biography
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| lived:
| (1759–1823)
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| biography:
| US representative and jurist, born in Wareham, Massachusetts, USA. He studied and practised law in Windham, CT. He served in Connecticut's general assembly (1787–93, 1820–2) and in the US House of Representatives (Federalist, 1793–7). He opposed slavery and sat on the Connecticut Superior Court (1801–19), but fell into disfavour after participating in the Hartford Convention (1814) that threatened secession in opposition to the War of 1812. He wrote some of the first American law texts and was eulogized for making laws intelligible. |
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