Author: Orono (Me.)
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Centennial Celebration, and Dedication of Town Hall, Orono, Maine, March 3, 1874 ...
Author: Orono (Me.)
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Publisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Catalog ... of the American Historical Library, Collection of Alfred S. Manson, Boston, Mass
Author: Alfred Small Manson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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An Exemplary Whig
Author: David M. Gold
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739172735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Historians have paid surprisingly little attention to state-level political leaders and judges. Edward Kent (1802–77) was both. He served three terms as a state legislator, two as mayor of Bangor, two as governor, and two as a judge of the state supreme court. He represented Maine in the negotiations that resolved the long-running northeastern border dispute between the United States and Great Britain and served for four years as the American consul in Rio de Janeiro. The foremost Whig in Maine state politics and later a Republican judge, Kent articulated classic Whig political views and carried them forward into his Whig-Republican jurisprudence. In examining Kent's career as Maine's quintessential Whig, An Exemplary Whig reveals his characteristically conservative Whig outlook, including an aversion toward disorder and a deep respect for law, for existing institutions, and for the wisdom of experience. Kent brought his conservative disposition into the Republican Party. He had no use for radical abolitionism, preferring moderation and compromise to measures that endangered social order or the integrity of the Union. Kent saw the "slave power," not abolitionism, as the disrupter of the Union, and he urged the “fusion” of all antislavery elements into a new Republican party. In 1859, Maine's Republican governor appointed Kent to the state supreme court. During his fourteen-year tenure, Kent adopted a Whiggish jurisprudence, pragmatic and commonsensical, and displayed a reverence for the common law and a distrust of “theoretic speculation.” After his retirement, he chaired a constitutional revision commission, admonishing his fellow commissioners to bear in mind the “practical wisdom” that kept dangerous innovation in check. As a politician during the Jacksonian era, Kent exemplified Whig leadership at the local and state levels. In his jurisprudence, he carried the Whig persuasion into the Republican ascendancy and the beginnings of the Gilded Age.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739172735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Historians have paid surprisingly little attention to state-level political leaders and judges. Edward Kent (1802–77) was both. He served three terms as a state legislator, two as mayor of Bangor, two as governor, and two as a judge of the state supreme court. He represented Maine in the negotiations that resolved the long-running northeastern border dispute between the United States and Great Britain and served for four years as the American consul in Rio de Janeiro. The foremost Whig in Maine state politics and later a Republican judge, Kent articulated classic Whig political views and carried them forward into his Whig-Republican jurisprudence. In examining Kent's career as Maine's quintessential Whig, An Exemplary Whig reveals his characteristically conservative Whig outlook, including an aversion toward disorder and a deep respect for law, for existing institutions, and for the wisdom of experience. Kent brought his conservative disposition into the Republican Party. He had no use for radical abolitionism, preferring moderation and compromise to measures that endangered social order or the integrity of the Union. Kent saw the "slave power," not abolitionism, as the disrupter of the Union, and he urged the “fusion” of all antislavery elements into a new Republican party. In 1859, Maine's Republican governor appointed Kent to the state supreme court. During his fourteen-year tenure, Kent adopted a Whiggish jurisprudence, pragmatic and commonsensical, and displayed a reverence for the common law and a distrust of “theoretic speculation.” After his retirement, he chaired a constitutional revision commission, admonishing his fellow commissioners to bear in mind the “practical wisdom” that kept dangerous innovation in check. As a politician during the Jacksonian era, Kent exemplified Whig leadership at the local and state levels. In his jurisprudence, he carried the Whig persuasion into the Republican ascendancy and the beginnings of the Gilded Age.
A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891
Author: Joseph Williamson
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Reference List on Maine Local History
Author: Drew Bert Hall
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Americana ... Nov. 14-18
Author: Hobart M. Cable
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Report
Author: New York State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1796
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1796
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Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Americana, Belonging to H.M. Cable, Esq., of Hyde Park, Mass
Author: Hobart M. Cable
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late Charles Deane
Author: Charles Deane
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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