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See also:SHAW, LEMUEL (1781–1861) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born at See also:Barnstable, See also:Massachusetts, son of the See also:minister of the See also:West See also:Parish there, on the 9th of See also:January 1781. He graduated from Harvard See also:College in 1800, and was admitted to the See also:bar (of New See also:Hampshire and of Massachusetts) in 1804. In 18o5 he began to practise See also:law in See also:Boston. He was a prominent Federalist and was a member of the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1811-1814, in 1820, and in 1829, and of the See also:state See also:Senate in 1821–1822, a delegate to the state constitutional See also:convention of 1820-1821, and See also:chief See also:justice of the Supreme See also:Court of the state from 183o to 186o. He died in Boston on the 3oth of See also:March 1861. As chief justice Shaw maintained the high See also:standard of excellence set by See also:Theophilus See also:Parsons. He presided over the trial in 1850 of See also:Professor See also:John See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Webster (1793–1850) for the See also:murder of Dr See also:George See also:Parkman. His See also:work in extending the See also:equity, iuriiadiction and See also:powers of the court was especially notable. He was also largely instrumental in defeating an See also:attempt (1843) to make a reduction of See also:salary apply to See also:judges already in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and an attempt (1853) to abolish the See also:life See also:term of judges. His See also:opinion in See also:Cary v._ Daniels (8 See also:Metcalf) is the basis of the See also:present law in Massachusetts as to the regulation of See also:water See also:power rights of riparian proprietors.
See the address by B. F. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas in Proceedings of the Massachusetts See also:Historical Society, x. 50-79 (Boston, 1869) ; and the sketches by See also:Samuel S. Shaw and P. Emory See also:Aldrich in vol. iv. pp. 200-247, of Memorial See also:Biographies of the New See also:England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston, 1885).
End of Article: SHAW, LEMUEL (1781–1861)
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