John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court : circuit riding in the old Southwest /

Brown, Steven Preston.

John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court : circuit riding in the old Southwest / Steven P. Brown. - Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps, plan, portraits -

"Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley -- Logans, law, and political futility -- Alabama fever and Georgia faction -- The politics of political change -- Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington -- The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842 -- Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852 -- The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculat.


English.

9780817386269 (electronic bk.) 0817386262 (electronic bk.) 0817317716 (trade cloth ; alk. paper) 9780817317713 (trade cloth ; alk. paper) (trade cloth ; alk. paper)




McKinley, John, 1780-1852.
McKinley, John, 1780-1852.


United States. Supreme Court --Biography.
États-Unis. Supreme Court --Biographies.
United States. Supreme Court.


1800-1899


Judges--United States--Biography.
Circuit courts--History--Southwest, Old--19th century.
Politicians--Alabama--Biography.
Juges--États-Unis--Biographies.
Cours de circuit--Histoire--États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest)--19e siècle.
Hommes politiques--Alabama--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Lawyers & Judges.
LAW--Government--Federal.
Circuit courts.
Judges.
Politicians.


Alabama.
United States.
United States--Old Southwest.


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