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Robert Cooper Grier (March 5, 1794 – September 25, 1870) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States. A Jacksonian Democrat from Pennsylvania who served from 1846 to 1870, Grier weighed in on some of the most important cases of the 19th century.
Justice Robert Cooper Grier joined the U.S. Supreme Court on August 10, 1846, replacing Justice Henry Baldwin. Grier was born on March 5, 1794 in south-central Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1812, having attended for just one year.
Robert C. Grier (born March 5, 1794, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died September 25, 1870, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1846–70).
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Overview. Robert Cooper Grier. Quick Reference. (b. Cumberland County, Pa., 5 Mar. 1794; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 25 Sep. 1870; interred West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala‐Cynwyd, Pa.), associate justice, 1846–1870. The eldest of the eleven children of ... From: Grier, Robert Cooper in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States »
GRIER, ROBERT C. (1794–1870) The senate on August 4, 1846, unanimously confirmed Robert Cooper Grier as the thirty-third Justice of the Supreme Court. President james k. polk nominated Grier because of his states ' rights Democratic principles, his position on the fugitive slavery issue, and his familiarity through thirteen years of previous ...
Robert Cooper Grier served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1846 to 1870. Grier is best remembered for his unusual actions during the deliberation of dred scott v. sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393, 15 L. Ed. 691 (1857).
Robert Cooper Grier was born on March 5, 1794 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, the eldest of the eleven children of Presbyterian minister Isaac Grier, a member of the Dickinson class of 1788 and his wife Mary Cooper Grier.
