| Author | Bullard, F. Lauriston (Frederic Lauriston), 1866-1952.
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| Title | Lincoln and the courts of the District of Columbia / by F. Lauriston Bullard.
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| Published | [s.l. : s.n., 1938?]
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| Description | [4] p. ; 28 cm.
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| General Note | Caption title.
"Reprinted from American Bar Association journal, February, 1938."
"Story of how Congress acted during the Civil War to get rid of obnoxious jurists on Circuit Court of the District of Columbia who were suspected of sympathy with the enemy -- Bill abolishing court and creating entirely new tribunal jammed through both houses in closing days of Thirty-Seventh Congress in face of resentment of entire bar and formal remonstrance of several thousand citizens of District -- President Lincoln signs bill -- Characters of some of the judges involved."
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| Subjects | Circuit courts -- Washington (D.C.) -- Political aspects.
Law -- Political aspects.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
United States. Cicuit Court (District of Columbia)
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 457.909 Z1 no. 52
mq236031: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 142358] |
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