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Benjamin Robbins Curtis ( November 4, 1809 – September 15, 1874 ) was an American attorney and United States Supreme Court Justice.
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Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson of Norwich, Connecticut acquired the Jennings patent from Robbins & Lawrence, as well as shop foreman Benjamin Tyler Henry.
His brother, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, was notable as one of the two dissenters in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
The founders of this early incarnation were Philo Carpenter, Howard Z. Culver, then-Chicago mayor Benjamin W. Raymond, George M. Wheeler, Thomas S. Dickerson, Edward H. Williams and W. Robbins.
Robbins received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society in 1999.
Smith designed a much-improved rifle based on Jennings ', and the partners also hired away Robbins & Lawrence shop foreman Benjamin Tyler Henry.
* A Tale of two Theories: Brainwashing and Conversion as Competing Political Narratives, in Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, eds.
* Benjamin Beith-Hallahmi: O Truant Muse ': Collaborationism and Research Integrity, in Zablocki and Robbins ( ed.
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On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.
Benjamin Curtis was born November 4, 1809 in Watertown, Massachusetts, the son of Lois Ribbins and Benjamin Curtis, the captain of a merchant vessel.
See, dissenting opinion of Justice Benjamin Curtis, wherein he stated that there were African American citizens in both Southern and Northern states at the time: Therefore, they were among the " people of the United States " whom the Constitution addressed.
* Memoir and Writings ( 2 vols., Boston, 1880 ), the first volume including a memoir by George Ticknor Curtis, and the second " Miscellaneous Writings ," edited by Benjamin R. Curtis, his son.
With Some of his Professional and Miscellaneous Writings, Edited by his son, Benjamin R. Curtis, ( October 19, 1879 ).
The following authors are quoted ( in order of their appearance in the book ): Anne Frank, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, William Cullen Bryant, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Byron, Noble Claggett, John Greenleaf Whittier, Benjamin Franklin, John Heywood, Cesare Bonesana Beccaria, Bertolt Brecht, Saint John, Charles Dickens, Isaac Watts, William Shakespeare, Plato, Robert Browning, Jean de La Fontaine, François Rabelais, Patrick R. Chalmers, Michel de Montaigne, Joseph Conrad, George William Curtis, Samuel Butler, T. S. Eliot, A. E. Housman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles E. Carryl, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Edward Lear, Henry David Thoreau, Sophocles, Robert Frost, and Charles Darwin.
On December 9, 1857, President James Buchanan nominated Clifford to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Benjamin R. Curtis.
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On 10 November Reynolds wrote to Benjamin West to resign the Presidency, but the General Assembly agreed that Reynolds should be re-elected, with Sir William Chambers and West to deputise for him.
However, the ruling party comfortably won the elections amid widespread irregularities and its candidate Benjamin William Mkapa was subsequently sworn in as the new president of Tanzania in the country's ever multi-party election on 23 November 1995.
He was a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and on November 5, 1788 he was elected President of the Council, replacing Benjamin Franklin.
* November 21 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.
* November 25 – Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappears ( possibly murdered ) in Perleberg, west of Berlin.
* November 6 – U. S. presidential election, 1888: United States Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
* November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
* November 30 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka ( king ) of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief ( June 14 ), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general ( July 26 ) and creating a Continental Navy ( October 13 ) and a Marine force ( November 10 ) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British ( June 12 ) and American ( July 15 ) governments make laws.
* November 9 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astronomer and surveyor of the District of Columbia ( d. 1806 )
* November – Crews on two ships commanded by Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach attack and capture the British-built French guineyman " Concorde " in the eastern Caribbean.
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH ( 22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 ) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist ; and one of the central figures of twentieth-century British classical music.
Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on 22 November 1913, the youngest of four children.
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (; ( 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929 ) was a French journalist, physician, and statesman.
Benjamin Sherman " Scatman " Crothers ( May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986 ) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980.
Benjamin Banneker ( November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806 ) was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.
Benjamin Banneker was born November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland to his mother Mary, a free black, and his father George, a fugitive slave.
Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield ( 11 November 1792 – 15 December 1872 ) was a British peeress and society figure, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
On November 18, 1868, two weeks after he was elected vice president, Colfax married Ella M. Wade, a niece of Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade.
Benjamin Edward " Ben " Stiller ( born November 30, 1965 ) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.
In the most recent municipal election on November 3, 2009, Tony Allen was defeated in his bid for a fourth term as supervisor by Democrat Benjamin Bamford in a very close race.
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