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Abiel Leonard, Yankee slaveholder, eminent jurist, and passionate Unionist
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- Creator
- Dennis K. Boman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- vi, 259 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780773472662, 0773472665, 9780889460997, 088946099X
- OCLC
- ocm47803715
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
- ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE -- Family -- Education at Dartmouth -- Move to Missouri -- Early Legal Career -- APPOINTED CIRCUIT ATTORNEY AND DUEL -- State Prosecutor -- Duel -- Missouri v. Abiel Leonard -- Conviction and Pardon -- Prospering Legal Career -- POLITICAL OPERATIVE -- John Quincy Adams' Supporter -- Political Divisions in Missouri -- 1825 Gubernatorial Campaign -- David Todd Impeachment Trial -- MILITARY SERVICE AND MARRIAGE -- Life as a Bachelor -- Circuit Riding -- Military Command -- Marriage -- STATE LEGISLATOR -- Anti-Jacksonian politician -- Reviser of Missouri Legal Codes -- Federal Resolutions -- Public Education Bill -- Howard College Bill -- FAMILY MAN -- Construction of Oakwood -- Family Reunion -- Domestic Life -- Candidate for United States Senate -- 1840 Presidential Election --
- FAMILY MATTERS AND PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS -- Deaths of Leonard's Father and Mother -- John D. Leland Impeachment Trial -- Benjamin Leonard's Mental Illness -- Candidate for State Senate and -- Supporter of Henry Clay -- YANKEE SLAVEHOLDER -- Acquirement of Slaves -- Slave/Master Relations -- Slave Duties -- Slave Cases -- UNIONIST -- Religious and Educational Views -- 1848 Presidential Campaign -- Candidate for United States Senate -- 1852 State Whig Convention -- NEW VENTURES -- Marriage of Daughters -- Business Enterprises -- Kansas-Nebraska Controversy -- Election to Missouri Supreme Court and First Decisions -- JUDGE ABIEL LEONARD -- Home Improvements -- Son's Departure to Dartmouth -- Jurisprudence and Cases -- Poor Health and Temporary Retirement -- A Lawyer Again -- Case before the US Supreme Court -- CIVIL WAR -- 1860 State Opposition Convention -- Secession Crisis -- Guerrilla Warfare -- Supporter of Emancipation -- Death
Subjects
- Leonard, Abiel, 1797-1863.
- Missouri. General Assembly -- Biography.
- Missouri. Supreme Court -- Biography.
- Legislators -- Missouri -- Biography.
- Judges -- Missouri -- Biography.
- Lawyers -- Missouri -- Biography.
- Landowners -- Missouri -- Biography.
- Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Missouri -- Biography.
- Missouri -- Politics and government -- To 1865.
- Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.