Benjamin Robbins Curtis
(1809-1874)
American politician
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Benjamin Robbins Curtis (November 4, 1809 – September 15, 1874) was an American attorney and United States Supreme Court Justice. Curtis was the first and only Whig justice of the Supreme Court. He was also the first Supreme Court justice to have a formal legal degree and is the only justice to have resigned from the court over a matter of principle. He successfully acted as chief counsel for the Impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson during the first presidential impeachment trial and is notable as one of the two dissenters in the Dred Scott decision.
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4 November 1809 Watertown, Massachusetts
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15 September 1874 (aged 64) Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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