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Fermin Abella y Blave

aka: Fermín Abella y Blave
borndied
18321888
a Spanish writer and jurist. In 1856 he began his service to the State, holding different positions, up to Official in the Ultamar Ministry. From the beginning of his career he published various works devoted to writing and journalism.
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John Adams [2]

bornactivedied
1735, Oct 301797-18011826, Jul 4
an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the United States (1797–1801), the first Vice President (1789–1797), and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain. Adams was a political theorist in the Age of Enlightenment who promoted republicanism and a strong central governm...
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James Alexander

borndied
1691, May 271756, Apr 2
a lawyer and statesman in colonial New York. He served in the Colonial Assembly and as attorney general of the colony in 1721–23. His son William was later a major general in the Continental Army during the American revolution. Alexandria Township, New Jersey was named after James Alexander. In 1721, Alexander was appointed to the Governor's Council in New...
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Macon Bolling Allen

aka: Allen Macon Bolling
bornactivedied
1816, Aug 41844-18761894, Jun 11
believed to be both the first African American licensed to practice law and to hold a judicial position in the United States. Allen passed the bar exam in Maine in 1844 and became a Massachusetts Justice of the Peace in 1848. He moved to South Carolina after the American Civil War to practice law and was elected as a probate court judge in 1874. Following th...
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Zachariah Allen

bornactivedied
1795, Sep 151815-18791882, Mar 17
an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Providence, Rhode Island. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown University where he graduated in 1813. Allen became a textile manufacturer and in 1822 constructed a woolen mill in which he incorporated innovative fire-safety features and his own mech...
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Giambattista Almici

borndied
17171793
an Italian jurist. He was born near Brescia, and educated under the Jesuits there and at the University of Padua. He finally gave himself up to legal studies. After some official employments in which he gained great popularity, he traveled over Italy and Sicily. His marriage in 1771, and his numerous family, seem only to have induced him to live in a more re...
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Philip Alston

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1740, Feb 181799 ca
an 18th-century Spanish-American counterfeiter, both before and after the American Revolution. He operated in Virginia and the Carolinas before the war, and in Kentucky and Illinois afterward. He was associated with Cave-in-Rock and his son, outlaw Peter Alston, a...
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Baltasar Anduaga y Espinosa

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18171861
a Spanish politician, jurist, writer and translator. He held public office three times, and published legal, historical, and literary books. He translated and edited the works of Jeremy Bentham in fourteen volumes between 1841 and 1843, as well as the two volu...
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David Atchison

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1807, Aug 111829-18621886, Jan 26
a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a Major General in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a Confederate Brigadier General during the Civil War under Major General Sterling Price in the Missouri Ho...
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