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WHEATON, HENRY (1785–1848)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 583 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHEATON, See also:HENRY (1785–1848) , See also:American lawyer and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Providence, Rhode See also:Island, on the 27th of See also:November 1785. He graduated at See also:Brown University in 1802, was admitted to the See also:bar in 18o5, and, after two years' study abroad, practised See also:law at Providence (1807–1812) and at New See also:York See also:City (1812-1827). He was a See also:justice of the Marine See also:Court of the city of New York from 1815 to 1819, and reporter of the See also:United States Supreme Court from 1816 to 1827, aiding in 1825 in the revision of the See also:laws of New York. His See also:diplomatic career began in 1827, with an See also:appointment to See also:Denmark as See also:charge d'affaires, followed by that of See also:minister to See also:Prussia, 1837 to 1846. During this See also:period he had published a See also:Digest of the Law of Maritime Captures (1815); twelve volumes of Supreme Court Reports, and a Digest; a See also:great number of See also:historical articles, and some collected See also:works; Elements of See also:International Law (1836), his most important See also:work, of which a 6th edition with memoir was prepared by W. B. See also:Lawrence and an eighth by R. H. See also:Dana (q.v.); Histoire du Progres du See also:Droit See also:des Gens en See also:Europe, written in 1838 for a See also:prize offered by the See also:French See also:Academy of Moral and See also:Political See also:Science, and translated in 1845 by See also:William B. Lawrence as A See also:History of the Law of Nations in Europe and See also:America; and the Right of Visitation and See also:Search (1842). The History took See also:rank at once as one of the leading works on the subject of which it treats. Wheaton's See also:general theory is that international law consists of " those rules of conduct which See also:reason deduces, as consonant to justice, from the nature of the society existing among See also:independent nations, with such See also:definitions and modifications as may be established by general consent." In :846 Wheatonwas requested to resign by the new See also:president, See also:Polk, who needed his See also:place for another appointment.

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request provoked general condemnation; but Wheaton resigned and returned to the United States. He was called at once to the Harvard Law School as lecturer on international law; but he died at See also:Dorchester, See also:Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:March 1848.

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