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Abraham Lincoln, Esq.

Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams
Abraham Lincoln Esq Book PDF

Author : Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813139937

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Abraham Lincoln, Esq. by Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams Pdf

Lincoln scholars explore the president’s law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution. As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. In Abraham Lincoln, Esq., notable historiansexamine Lincoln's law practice and the effect it had on his presidency and the country. This volume offers new perspectives on Lincoln’s work in Illinois as well as his time in Washington. Each chapter offers an expansive look at Lincoln's legal mind and covers diverse topics such as Lincoln's legal writing, ethics, Constitutional law, and international law. Abraham Lincoln, Esq. emphasizes this overlooked period in Lincoln's career and sheds light on Lincoln's life before he became America’s sixteenth president.

A. Lincoln, Esquire

Allen D. Spiegel
A Lincoln Esquire Book PDF

Author : Allen D. Spiegel
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865547394

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A. Lincoln, Esquire by Allen D. Spiegel Pdf

"Abraham Lincoln has long been considered the greatest president by scholars of American history. According to legal scholars, he could just as easily have been one of the foremost lawyers in the nation had he not become president." "Lincoln practiced law for about twenty-five years, mainly in the circuit courts of Illinois. However, he was hardly a hick country lawyer. In contrast, Lincoln was an incisive, determined, and assertive litigator with an overwhelming caseload. He sought out new business for his law firm and cared about earning a comfortable living." "A ten-year research project, the Lincoln Legal Papers, discovered thousands of yellowed legal documents in musty and dusty courtroom basements. Those handwritten legal papers related to more than 5,000 cases that Lincoln handled, more than 400 before the supreme court of Illinois. In addition, Lincoln appeared before justices of the peace, circuit court judges, and even the Supreme Court of the United States." "For the first time, this book uses the newly discovered legal documents to tell the story of more than sixty of Lincoln's cases. Many of these cases have never been written about previously. Allen D. Spiegel describes how Lincoln the lawyer handled a staggering variety of cases involving arbitration, assault and battery, bad debt, bankruptcy, bastardy, bestiality, breach of marriage, divorce, impeachment of an Illinois justice, insanity, land titles, libel, medical malpractice, murder, partnership dissolution, patent infringement, personal injuries, property damages, rape, railroad bonds, sexual slander, slave ownership, and wrongful dismissal."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Abraham Lincoln, Esq.

Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams
Abraham Lincoln Esq Book PDF

Author : Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126098

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Abraham Lincoln, Esq. by Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams Pdf

As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America's Greatest President examines Lincoln's law practice and the effect it had on his presidency and the country. Editors Roger Billings and Frank J. Williams, along with a notable list of contributors, examine Lincoln's career as a general-practice attorney, looking both at his work in Illinois and at the time he spent in Washington. Each chapter offers an expansive look at Lincoln's legal mind and covers diverse topics such as Lincoln's legal writing, ethics, the Constitution, and international law. Abraham Lincoln, Esq. emphasizes this often overlooked period in Lincoln's career and sheds light on Lincoln's life before he became our sixteenth president.

Lincoln Apostate

Charles R. McKirdy
Lincoln Apostate Book PDF

Author : Charles R. McKirdy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1604739878

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Lincoln Apostate by Charles R. McKirdy Pdf

In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln represented a Kentucky slave owner named Robert Matson in his attempt to recover a runaway slave woman and her four children. Most Americans, even those with a penchant for the nation's history, have never heard of this court case. This is no coincidence. Lincoln's involvement in the case has troubled and bewildered most students and biographers of the "Great Emancipator." In many assessments, the case inspires rationalizations and distortions; in others, avoidance and denial. These approaches are a disservice to the man and to those who seek to understand him. In Lincoln Apostate: The Matson Slave Case, lawyer and historian Charles R. McKirdy digs behind the myths and evasions to determine why Lincoln chose to advocate property rights grounded in a system that he claimed to abhor and pursue the continued enslavement of five of its most vulnerable and sympathetic victims. In a careful and readable blend of narrative and analysis, the book finds the answer in the time and place that was Lincoln's Illinois in 1847, in the laws and judicial decisions that provided the legal backdrop against which the drama of the Matson case was played out, and in the man that Lincoln was thirteen years before he became president. The discussion of Lincoln's decision to represent Matson and the description of the trial itself take nothing at face value. The author examines primary and secondary sources for the ribbon of truth shorn of preconceptions and hollow justifications. Lincoln Apostate scrutinizes Lincoln's motives for choosing as he did and explores the ideals and fears of this very complex man.

The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly
The Lincoln Lawyer Book PDF

Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743317884

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The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly Pdf

Introducing Mickey Haller, 'The Lincoln Lawyer': a blistering tale about a cynical defence attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.

Lincoln the Lawyer

Brian R. Dirck
Lincoln the Lawyer Book PDF

Author : Brian R. Dirck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252076145

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Lincoln the Lawyer by Brian R. Dirck Pdf

What the law did to and for Abraham Lincoln, and its important impact on his future presidency

Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America

Brian McGinty
Lincoln s Greatest Case The River the Bridge and the Making of America Book PDF

Author : Brian McGinty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871407856

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Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America by Brian McGinty Pdf

The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge, unalterably changing the course of American transportation history. Within a year, long-simmering tensions between powerful steamboat interests and burgeoning railroads exploded, and the nation’s attention, absorbed by the Dred Scott case, was riveted by a new civil trial. Dramatically reenacting the Effie Afton case—from its unlikely inception, complete with a young Abraham Lincoln’s soaring oratory, to the controversial finale—this “masterful” (Christian Science Monitor) account gives us the previously untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.

Lincoln's Attorney General

Marvin Russell Cain
Lincoln s Attorney General Book PDF

Author : Marvin Russell Cain
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press [1965]
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Attorneys general
ISBN : UOM:39015041810725

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Lincoln's Attorney General by Marvin Russell Cain Pdf

By tracing the life and activities of a conservative American politician through the Jacksonian and Civil War periods, Professor Cain provides a view of a transitional era as seen through the eyes of a participant. Caught, like many of his generation, between the agrarian idealism of Jeffersonian society and the material promise of young America, Edward Bates was confronted with the problems of the times - slavery, sectionalism, and the implications of the industrial awakening. During his early career as a frontier lawyer Bates became concerned with Western development, and he guided the formation of the Whig party in Missouri. This study, in analyzing Bates's role as Whig leader, examines the Whig party in the West and the reasons for the party's eventual decline. The book's emphasis, however, is on Bates's service in Lincoln's Civil War Cabinet and his influence on the legal decisions made by the Administration. Professor Cain defines Bate's positions on slavery, emancipation, blockade, Confederate belligerency, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, confiscation of Confederate property, and civil and military proceedings against Southern sympathizers. Drawing upon Bate's letters, deposited in collections throughout the United States, and upon official records and other sources, Professor Cain provides much new material on the Attorney General's office, on judicial and administrative procedures during the Civil War, and on Bates's personal and professional relationship with Lincoln.

Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity

Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass
Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity Book PDF

Author : Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : UCAL:B3499732

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Clarence Darrow

John A. Farrell
Clarence Darrow Book PDF

Author : John A. Farrell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767927598

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Clarence Darrow by John A. Farrell Pdf

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age and the progressive era, Clarence Darrow became America’s greatest defense attorney, successfully championing poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts, against big business, fundamentalist religion, Jim Crow, and the US government. His courtroom style—a mixture of passion, improvisation, charm, and tactical genius—won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. In Farrell’s hands, Darrow is a Byronic figure, a renegade whose commitment to liberty led him to heroic courtroom battles and legal trickery alike.

Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica

Anonim
Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : OXFORD:555028277

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