Benjamin Robbins Curtis
American politician
Died when: 64 years 315 days (778 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (November 4, 1809 – September 15, 1874) was an American lawyer and judge.He served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857.
Curtis was the first and only Whig justice of the Supreme Court, and was also the first Supreme Court justice to have a formal law degree.
He is often remembered as one of the two dissenters in Dred Scott v.Sandford (1857).Curtis resigned from the Supreme Court in 1857 to return to private legal practice in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1868, Curtis was President Andrew Johnson's defense lawyer during Johnson's impeachment trial.
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