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Democracy's lawyer : Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest
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- Creator
- J. Roderick Heller III
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xii, 357 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807135884, 0807135887, 0807137421, 9780807146095, 9780807137420, 0807146099
- OCLC
- ocn659563186, ocn428731355
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337) and index.
- pt. I. Frontier roots. The Great Road -- The dark and bloody ground -- Education on the frontier -- pt. II. Kentucky. Felix Grundy, Esquire -- Political beginnings -- Circuit court reform -- Grundy and Clay -- Chief justice -- Greenville Springs -- pt. III. Tennessee. Tennessee and Congress -- War hawk -- Congress at war -- Return to Nashville -- Criminal lawyer -- The panic of 1819 -- Legislative leadership -- pt. IV. Jacksonian. Andrew Jackson for president -- Election to the Senate -- Jacksonian senator -- Nullification -- Reelection -- Land and slavery -- Battles with the Whigs -- Attorney General -- Twilight -- Epilogue
Subjects
- Grundy, Felix, 1777-1840.
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Friends and associates.
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
- Lawyers -- Southwest, Old -- Biography.
- Attorneys general -- United States -- Biography.
- Southwest, Old -- Biography.
- Tennessee -- Biography.
- Kentucky -- Biography.
- United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Biography.