02885nam 2200589 a 450 991078633830332120230313150528.00-8173-8626-2(CKB)2670000000277374(EBL)1073302(OCoLC)819635044(SSID)ssj0000783583(PQKBManifestationID)11476067(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783583(PQKBWorkID)10753361(PQKB)11335087(MiAaPQ)EBC1073302(MdBmJHUP)muse19090(Au-PeEL)EBL1073302(CaPaEBR)ebr10629247(EXLCZ)99267000000027737420120417d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court[electronic resource] circuit riding in the old Southwest /Steven P. BrownTuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Pressc20121 online resource (329 p.)"Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."0-8173-1771-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley -- Logans, law, and political futility -- Alabama fever and Georgia faction -- The politics of political change -- Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington -- The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842 -- Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852 -- The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley's time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama. Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculatJudgesUnited StatesBiographyCircuit courtsSouthwest, OldHistory19th centuryPoliticiansAlabamaBiographyJudgesCircuit courtsHistoryPoliticians347.73/2634092BBrown Steven P.1964-1333134McKinley John1780-1852.1191790MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786338303321John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court3761499UNINA