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See also:HARLAN, See also:JOHN See also:MARSHALL (1833- ) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born in See also:Boyle See also:county, See also:Kentucky, on the 1st of See also:June 1833. He graduated at Centre See also:College, See also:Danville, Ky., in 185o, and at the See also:law See also:department of Transylvania University, See also:Lexington, in 1853. He was county See also:judge of See also:Franklin county in 1858-1859, was an unsuccessful See also:candidate for See also:Congress on the Whig See also:ticket in 1859, and was elector on the Constitutional See also:Union ticket in 186o. On the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he recruited and organized the Tenth Kentucky See also:United States Volunteer See also:Infantry, and in 1861-1863 served as See also:colonel. Retiring from the See also:army in 1863, he was elected by the Union party See also:attorney-See also:general of the See also:state, and was re-elected in 1865, serving from 1863 to 1867, when he removed to See also:Louisville to practise law. He was the Republican candidate for See also:governor in 1871 and in 1875, and was a member of the See also:commission which was appointed by See also:President See also:Hayes See also:early in 1877 to accomplish the recognition of one or other of the existing state governments of See also:Louisiana (q.v.); and he was a member of the See also:Bering See also:Sea tribunal which met in See also:Paris in 1893. On the 29th of See also:November 1877 he became an See also:associate See also:justice of the United States Supreme See also:Court. In this position he showed himself a liberal constructionist. In opinions on the Civil Rights cases and in the See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, he dissented from the See also:majority of the court and advocated increasing the See also:power of the Federal See also:government. He supported the constitutionality of the income tax clause in the See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson See also:Tariff See also:Bill of 1894, and he drafted the decision of the court in the See also:Northern Securities See also:Company See also:Case, which applied to See also:railways the provisions of the See also:Sherman See also:Anti-See also:Trust Law. In 1889 he became a See also:professor in the Law School of the Columbian University (afterwards See also:George See also:Washington University) in Washington, D.C.
End of Article: HARLAN, JOHN MARSHALL (1833- )
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