Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

and Thomas Flamank, a lawyer from Bodmin, marched to Blackheath in London where they were eventually defeated by 10, 000 men of the King's army under Baron Daubeny.

* Thomas Flamank, lawyer, co-leader of the Cornish Rebellion, 1497

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

In 1996, Thomas Jacobson, a lawyer representing eight of the families, announced a planned auction of Dahmer's estate to raise up to $ 1 million, sparking controversy.

When Atlanta reneged, the American Football League awarded an expansion team franchise to lawyer Joseph Robbie and actor Danny Thomas for $ 7. 5 million.

* 2009 – Thomas Franck, American lawyer ( b. 1931 )

'" Bracton's work was the second legal treatise studied by the young apprentice lawyer Thomas Jefferson.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

* 1856 – Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician ( d. 1922 )

Sir Thomas More (; 7 February 14786 July 1535 ), known to Catholics as Saint Thomas More since 1935, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

Born in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger ).

Thomas McKean ( March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He chose Indiana Governor Thomas R. Marshall as his running mate and selected William Frank McCombs, a New York lawyer and a friend from college days, to manage his campaign.

* August 21 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician ( b. 1777 )

* January 14 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge ( b. 1578 )

* Thomas Trevor of England ( 1586 – 1656 ), Anglo-Welsh lawyer, Member of Parliament, and judge

* July 6 – Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, writer, and politician ( executed ) ( b. 1478 )

* June 24 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence ( b. 1734 )

* July – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician ( d. 1854 )

* March 19 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1817 )

** Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer ( d. 1640 )

** Thomas Norton, English lawyer ( d. 1584 )

Her second husband Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, an eminent lawyer and Lord Chancellor of England, had died in 1617.

The Egerton family descended from Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley, Cheshire, whose illegitimate son Sir Thomas Egerton was a prominent lawyer who served as Master of the Rolls from 1594 to 1603, as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1593 to 1603 and as Lord High Chancellor of England from 1603 to 1617.

His illegitimate son, Thomas Egerton, was a prominent lawyer who served as Master of the Rolls from 1594 to 1603, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1596 to 1617 and also as Lord High Chancellor of England.

Leslie Egerton Blackwell ( 1897 — 20 October 1959 ) was a Canadian politician, soldier, lawyer, and land developer.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Lawrence listened with the practiced, deceptive calm of the lawyer, but his face was in the shadow.

A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.

The lawyer didn't know him very well although he saw him occasionally at some dinner party -- Thayer, like himself, Madden reflected, was the extra man so prized by hostesses -- and found him easy enough to talk to.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

His lawyer had sent him a statement on his overdue alimony, and there was a letter from the Collector of Internal Revenue asking him to stop in his office and explain last year's exemptions.

I was so sure it was all temporary that we would all embrace, and then the lawyer would tear up all those things

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

The name was invented either by Lovecraft, or by Albert Baker, the Phillips ' family lawyer.

In the 1870s, he was listed in the New York business directory as lawyer.

Woolfson was a lawyer by profession, but also a composer and pianist.

Lavoisier received a law degree and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced as a lawyer.

Alford was sentenced to thirty years in prison, after the trial judge in the case accepted the plea bargain and ruled that the defendant had been adequately apprised by his lawyer.

The Supreme Court held that for the plea to be accepted, the defendant must have been advised by a competent lawyer who was able to inform the individual that his best decision in the case would be to enter a guilty plea.

It was also falsely reported that Ms. Musseli sent over US $ 500, 000 to Switzerland, but that was gossip given credence by newspaper items claiming that Loewe had warned his partner to not get romantically involved with a lawyer.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

Nora confides to Kristine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride.

In 1824, Disraeli toured Belgium and the Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: " I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer.

Barbara Olson ( December 27, 1955 September 11, 2001 ) was a lawyer and conservative American television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets.