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Benjamin Robbins Curtis

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Gender Male
Death149 years ago
Date of birth November 4,1809
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Watertown
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died September 15,1874
DiedNewport
Rhode Island
United States
NationalityAmerican
Appointed by Millard Fillmore
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Date of Upd.
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Benjamin Robbins Curtis Life story


Benjamin Robbins Curtis 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.

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