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William Beach Lawrence

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William Beach Lawrence 1800-1881, American political leader and jurist, b. New York City. He was appointed secretary of the legation in Great Britain in 1826 and was made (1827) chargé d'affaires. In 1829 he returned to New York City, where he practiced law. Lawrence moved to Rhode Island in 1850, was elected lieutenant governor in 1851, and was acting governor in 1852. Soon afterward he retired from politics to devote himself to writing on international law. His annotated edition of Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law (1855) was long a standard work. From his service on... Read more

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...sisters. The family soon moved to Long Beach, Indiana, on the southern end of Lake...do big things," La Lumiere math teacher Lawrence Sullivan told the International Herald...Supreme Court Justice (later Chief Justice) William Rehnquist the following year. The demanding... Read more

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