Research Catalog

Title

John Marshall Harlan : the last Whig justice / Loren P. Beth.

Author

Beth, Loren P.

Publication

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1992.

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Description

vi, 313 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Biography of a prominent Civil War era Supreme Court; justice who championed civil rights & the powers of congress.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911
• Judges > United States > Biography
• Constitutional history > United States

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

PART I. THE ROAD TO THE SUPREME COURT. Kentucky childhood, 1833-1854 ; Kentucky lawyer-politician, 1855-1860 ; Kentucky unionist, 1861 ; Union soldier, 1861-1863 ; Into the political wilderness, 1863-1867 ; Kentucky republican, 1868-1875 ; Kingmaker, 1876 ; The fruits of success, 1877 ; Political reward, 1877 -- PART II. JUDICIAL CAREER. Associate justice, 1877-1887 ; Associate justice, 1887-1897 ; Associate justice, 1897-1911 -- PART III. JUDICIAL OPINIONS. Interstate commerce ; Substantive due process ; Criminal procedure in the states ; Civil rights ; The income tax ; The insular cases ; Other issues ; Man, politician, judge.

ISBN

081311778X

LCCN

^^^91036140^//r92

OCLC

• 24544195
• SCSB-9882783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library