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Benjamin Robbins Curtis lived from 1809 to 1874. Early Life. Curtis was born on November 4, 1809 in Watertown, Massachusetts to Lois Robbins and Benjamin Curtis, who was the captain of a merchant vessel. As a young boy, Curtis attended common school in Newton. Following common school, he attended Harvard College (now Harvard University).
Benjamin Robbins Curtis b. November 4, 1809, Watertown, MA d. September 15, 1874, Newport, RI Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1851-1857)
BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS: JUDICIAL MISFIT RICHARD H. LEACH W HEN, in September, 1851, President Millard Fillmore appointed young Benjamin Robbins Curtis, of Boston, Massachusetts, to fill the place of the late Levi Woodbury on the United States Supreme Court, he expected, in his own words, to obtain "as long a lease and as much moral and ju-
21 de mar. de 2023 · Massachusetts. Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809-1874) was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. He joined the court in 1851 after a nomination from President Millard Fillmore. Prior to joining the court, Curtis was a private practice attorney. He resigned from the Supreme Court on September 30, 1857, to return to private ...
Benjamin Robbins Curtis. Benjamin Robbins Curtis served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857. A native of Massachusetts, Curtis wrote a famous dissent in DRED SCOTT V. SANDFORD, 60 U.S. 393, 15 L. Ed. 691 (1857), a case that upheld the legitimacy of SLAVERY and denied free African Americans U.S. citizenship.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (American National Biography) Scholarship One of two dissents in Dred Scott, Curtis's opinion challenged Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and the Court majority by arguing that the black citizens of a state were automatically citizens of the United States and that Congress had complete constitutional authority to regulate slavery in the territories.
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.
