1805/02/04 |
John Randolph of Roanoke |
Prosecutor |
Senate impeachment trial of Judge Samuel Chase, 4 February to 1 March 1805. The House of Representatives charged Judge Chase with eight articles of impeachment. |
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Impeachment Trial of Judge Chase |
1805/02/04 |
Aaron Burr Jr |
Presiding Judge |
Senate impeachment trial of Judge Samuel Chase, 4 February to 1 March 1805. The House of Representatives charged Judge Chase with eight articles of impeachment. |
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Impeachment Trial of Judge Chase |
1805/02/04 |
Samuel Chase |
Defendant |
Senate impeachment trial of Judge Samuel Chase, 4 February to 1 March 1805. The House of Representatives charged Judge Chase with eight articles of impeachment. |
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Impeachment Trial of Judge Chase |
1805/03/00 |
Brice John Worthington |
Life |
Brice John Worthington travels to Washington to be with Samuel Chase during the impeachment of the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. |
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Impeachment Trial of Judge Chase |
1810/00/00 |
John Marshall (Chief Justice) |
Work |
Chief Justice John Marshall presides as the Supreme Court meets for the first time in the Capitol chamber |
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1818/03/10 |
Daniel Webster |
Defence attorney |
Daniel Webster defends Dartmouth College's right to retain their private charter |
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Dartmouth College v Woodward |
1818/03/10 |
Henry Brockholst Livingston |
Associate Justice |
Daniel Webster defends Dartmouth College's right to retain their private charter |
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Dartmouth College v Woodward |
1819/02/02 |
Joseph Story |
Associate Justice |
Chief Justice John Marshall's majority opinion read. |
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Dartmouth College v Woodward |
1819/02/02 |
John Marshall (Chief Justice) |
Chief Justice |
Chief Justice John Marshall's majority opinion read. |
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Dartmouth College v Woodward |
1824/02/05 |
Bushrod Washington |
Associate Justice |
Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J Oakley argue for Ogden (New York State), while William Wirt and Daniel Webster represent Thomas Gibbons at the US Supreme Court. |
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Gibbons v Ogden |
1824/02/05 |
Joseph Story |
Associate Justice |
Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J Oakley argue for Ogden (New York State), while William Wirt and Daniel Webster represent Thomas Gibbons at the US Supreme Court. |
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Gibbons v Ogden |
1824/02/05 |
John Marshall (Chief Justice) |
Chief Justice |
Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J Oakley argue for Ogden (New York State), while William Wirt and Daniel Webster represent Thomas Gibbons at the US Supreme Court. |
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Gibbons v Ogden |
1824/02/05 |
Gabriel Duvall |
Associate Justice |
Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J Oakley argue for Ogden (New York State), while William Wirt and Daniel Webster represent Thomas Gibbons at the US Supreme Court. |
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Gibbons v Ogden |
1824/02/05 |
Daniel Webster |
Defence attorney |
Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J Oakley argue for Ogden (New York State), while William Wirt and Daniel Webster represent Thomas Gibbons at the US Supreme Court. |
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Gibbons v Ogden |
1824/02/05 |
Thomas Todd |
Associate Justice |
Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J Oakley argue for Ogden (New York State), while William Wirt and Daniel Webster represent Thomas Gibbons at the US Supreme Court. |
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Gibbons v Ogden |
1827/00/00 |
William Thomas Carroll Sr |
Work |
Willian Thomas Carroll begins working as Clerk of the Supreme Court. He will working there until 1855. |
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1841/02/24 |
Roger Sherman Baldwin |
Defense Attorney |
Roger Sherman Baldwin gives a compelling legal defense centering on the basic liberties of human beings and the free status of the illegally enslaved before the Supreme Court of the United States of America. |
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United States v The Amistad |
1841/02/24 |
John Quincy Adams |
Defence Attorney |
John Quincy Adams Argues the Amistad Case before the US Supreme Court |
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United States v The Amistad |
1841/03/09 |
Joseph Story |
Associate Justice |
Senior Justice Joseph Story reads the decision of the US Supreme Court |
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United States v The Amistad |
1844/05/24 |
Samuel F B Morse |
Inventor |
Samuel Morse sends the message, "What hath God wrought" over his telegraph 30 miles (48 km) from the Supreme Court chamber in the basement of the US Capitol building in Washington DC to Baltimore and Ohio's Mount Clare station in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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Invention of the Telegraph |
1849/00/00 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Lawyer |
Lincoln argues case before United States Supreme Court |
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Lewis v Lewis |
1857/03/06 |
Dread Scott |
Plaintiff |
US Supreme Court issues their Dred Scott Decision |
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Dred Scott v Stanford |
1860/00/00 |
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Supreme Court moves up to the former Senate Chamber and the Supreme Court Chamber became a law library. |
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