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Theodore Sedgwick (May 9, 1746 – January 24, 1813) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served in elected state government and as a delegate to the Continental Congress, a U.S. representative, and a senator from Massachusetts.
Theodore Sedgwick (December 9, 1780 - November 7, 1839) was an American attorney, writer, and Democratic Party politician. Active in New York and Massachusetts, he served several terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1824 to 1831) and was the party's nominee for the United States House of Representatives in 1834 and ...
27 de fev. de 2020 · Elizabeth Freeman used the colonists' ideas of equality and independence to sue for her freedom. Her lawyer was Theodore Sedgwick, who would later become speaker of the U.S. House of...
Theodore Sedgwick III (January 27, 1811 – December 9, 1859) was an American attorney and writer on legal topics. He was born in Albany, New York, the son of Theodore Sedgwick II (1780–1839) and Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick (1788–1867).
Theodore Sedgwick, 1746–1813, American lawyer and statesman, b. West Hartford, Conn. He practiced law in Massachusetts after being admitted (1766) to the bar. In the American Revolution he acted (1776) as military secretary to Gen. John Thomas on the Canadian expedition.
27 de jul. de 2019 · By the age of 25, Theodore Sedgwick was an up-and-coming lawyer in Sheffield, Massachusetts. It was 1773 and the men in town had attended several meetings debating what to tell their colonial representative in Boston about how to handle the growing tensions with the Mother Country.
As this concept of freedom unfolded into the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, Bett developed her own resolve: to be free. She asked Theodore Sedgwick to sue for her freedom from her owner, John Ashley, under the Massachusetts Constitution.
