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Curtis, George Ticknor

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Curtis, George Ticknor (1812-1894)

US lawyer and historian. He opposed slavery and served as defense attorney in the Dred Scott case in 1857, in which the US Supreme Court held slaves were not citizens and thus had no constitutional protection. He later produced important works on constitutional history.

He was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. Harvard educated, he practised law in Worcester and Boston and was patent attorney for, among others, Samuel F B Morse. He wrote two studies vindicating failed Union General George B McClellan (1886, 1887).



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