USA Law

Category: Biography

  • John C. Calhoun

    John C. Calhoun in the United States John C. Calhoun in the U.S. Legal History Summary As vice president, Calhoun anonymously expounded the doctrine of nullification, which held that states could prevent the enforcement of a federal law within their boundaries.

  • Barry Goldwater

    Barry Goldwater in the United States Barry Goldwater in the U.S. Legal History Summary Republican residential candidate in 1964, Goldwater spearheaded an emergent conservative drive out of the South and West. Unhappy with the nation’s path toward liberalism, Goldwater called for more limited […]

  • Luther Martin

    Luther Martin in the United States Martin, Luther (1748-1826) Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Luther Martin represented Maryland in the continental congress and signed the declaration of independence. He was attorney general of Maryland from 1778 […]

  • George Bancroft

    George Bancroft in the United States Life and Work of George Bancroft (1800-1891) Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, he was a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, Bancroft served as james polk’s secretary of the navy and acting secretary of war, as […]

  • William Henry Seward

    William Henry Seward in the United States William Henry Seward in the U.S. Legal History Summary Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and advocate of a vigorous expansionism. He is perhaps best known for the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, an act […]

  • Erle Stanley Gardner

    Erle Stanley Gardner in the United States By William Domnarski, who practices law in Riverside and is the author of a book about Bert Fields and another book on Supreme Court justices, Revealing Personalities. California leads the nation in most everything, including lawyer-novelists, and […]

  • Harold Koh

    Harold Hongju Koh in the United States Former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, returned to the Yale Law School (being named a Sterling Professor of International Law) after serving as Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State. As the State Department’s legal adviser in the period […]

  • Susan Brownell Anthony

    Susan Brownell Anthony in the United States Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts to a Quaker father and a Baptist mother. She never married and was a […]

  • Joseph Galloway

    Joseph Galloway in the United States Galloway, Joseph (1731_1803) Joseph Galloway, (1731-1803), American lawyer and politician, one of the most prominent of the Loyalists, was born in West River, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, in 1731. He early removed to Philadelphia, where he acquired […]

  • Joseph Galloway

    Joseph Galloway in the United States Galloway, Joseph (1731_1803) Joseph Galloway, (1731-1803), American lawyer and politician, one of the most prominent of the Loyalists, was born in West River, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, in 1731. He early removed to Philadelphia, where he acquired […]

  • Henry Winter Davis

    Henry Winter Davis in the United States Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865), American political leader, was born at Annapolis, Maryland, on the 16th of August 1817. His father, Rev Henry Lyon Davis (1775-1836), was a prominent Protestant Episcopal clergyman of Maryland, and for some years […]

  • Henry Winter Davis

    Henry Winter Davis in the United States Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865), American political leader, was born at Annapolis, Maryland, on the 16th of August 1817. His father, Rev Henry Lyon Davis (1775-1836), was a prominent Protestant Episcopal clergyman of Maryland, and for some years […]

  • Edward Dickinson Baker

    Edward Dickinson Baker in the United States Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861), a political leader, orator and soldier, who was born in London, England, was taken to the United States in 1815, was a representative in Congress from Illinois in 1845-1846 and 1849-1851, served in the Mexican […]

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biography Introduction to Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg, born in 1933, American jurist and professor of law, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1993- ), who has worked toward ending institutionalized […]

  • Stephen Breyer

    Stephen G. Breyer in the United States Introduction to Stephen Breyer Stephen Breyer, born in 1938, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1994- ). President Bill Clinton nominated Breyer to replace Justice Harry Blackmun when Blackmun retired in 1994. Stephen Gerald […]