Category: Biography
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Henry J. Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser in the United States Henry J. Kaiser in the U.S. Legal History Summary Industrialist who epitomized the close relationship between government and industry in the West. His shipyards, financed by government loans and bolstered by cost-plus government contracts, employed close to […]
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Henry J. Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser in the United States Henry J. Kaiser in the U.S. Legal History Summary Industrialist who epitomized the close relationship between government and industry in the West. His shipyards, financed by government loans and bolstered by cost-plus government contracts, employed close to […]
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Joseph Story
Joseph Story in the United States Life and Work of Joseph Story The following is an old definition of Joseph Story [1]: Was born September 18, 1779, at Marblehead, and died September 10, 1845, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard college in 1798, standing second in his […]
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John Marshall
John Marshall in the United States Marshall, John (1755-1835) Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court (1801-1835), is still popularly known as the Great Chief Justice and the Expounder of the […]
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John Marshall
John Marshall in the United States Marshall, John (1755-1835) Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court (1801-1835), is still popularly known as the Great Chief Justice and the Expounder of the […]
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem in the United States Ngo Dinh Diem in the U.S. Legal History Summary Although a Catholic in a Buddhist nation and a leader with no popular charm, the American government manufactured Diem’s 1956 election because of his anticommunist views. The American government gradually […]
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem in the United States Ngo Dinh Diem in the U.S. Legal History Summary Although a Catholic in a Buddhist nation and a leader with no popular charm, the American government manufactured Diem’s 1956 election because of his anticommunist views. The American government gradually […]
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Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney in the United States Charles Grandison Finney in the U.S. Legal History Summary The father of modern revivalism, Finney devised many techniques adopted by later revival preachers. He encouraged many women to participate actively in revival.
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Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney in the United States Charles Grandison Finney in the U.S. Legal History Summary The father of modern revivalism, Finney devised many techniques adopted by later revival preachers. He encouraged many women to participate actively in revival.
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Dred Scott
Dred Scott in the United States Dred Scott in the U.S. Legal History Summary A Missouri slave, Scott sued for his freedom on the grounds that his master had taken him onto free soil. The Supreme Court ruled in 1857 that Scott was not a citizen and that Congress had no power to exclude slavery…
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Dred Scott
Dred Scott in the United States Dred Scott in the U.S. Legal History Summary A Missouri slave, Scott sued for his freedom on the grounds that his master had taken him onto free soil. The Supreme Court ruled in 1857 that Scott was not a citizen and that Congress had no power to exclude slavery…
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William Harris Crawford
William Harris Crawford in the United States William Harris Crawford (1772-1834), American statesman, was born in Amherst county, Virginia, on the 24th of February 1772. When he was seven his parents moved into Edgefield district, South Carolina, and four years later into Columbus county, […]
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706_1790) in the United States Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Benjamin Franklin, a beloved elder statesman of the young Republic, (he) lent prestige to the (constitutional) Convention by his presence. His signature on the new […]
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706_1790) in the United States Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Benjamin Franklin, a beloved elder statesman of the young Republic, (he) lent prestige to the (constitutional) Convention by his presence. His signature on the new […]
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Hinton Rowan Helper
Hinton Rowan Helper in the United States Hinton Rowan Helper in the U.S. Legal History Summary The North Carolina-born author of The Impending Crisis of the South, a book that argued that slavery was incompatible with economic progress.