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	Governor Lewis Morris
		Lewis Morris (October 15, 1671 - May 21, 1746), chief justice of New York and governor of New Jersey, was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York.
		Morris was elected to the assembly from the town of Eastchester, and joined James Alexander and William Smith in championing the popular cause against the "court party" led by Cosby and De Lancey.
		William A. Whitehead, Editor, The Papers of Lewis Morris, Governor of the Province of New Jersey, from 1738 to 1746, New Jersey Historical Society, New York, George P. Putnam, 1852.
	www.iment.com /maida/familytree/morris/lewismorris.htm (1342 words)

	William Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Smith (chief justice) (1728–1793), historian, Chief Justice of the Province of New York, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
		William E. Smith, Governor of Wisconsin from 1878 to 1882
		William H. Smith, Governor of Alabama from 1868 to 1870
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Smith (582 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Smith had long been an advocate of a union of the American colonies: between 1765 and 1775 he had written several papers urging a united legislature consisting of a lord lieutenant with wide discretionary powers, a council, and an assembly chosen by indirect election.
		Smith, the only judge not castigated by Monk, was mainly responsible for conducting the investigation and was uncomfortably prominent as one disappointed litigant after another denounced his colleagues.
		William Smith Jr (New York, 1826); and A review of the military operations in North-America; from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontier of Virginia in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36293 (3022 words)

	Smith, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Smith, William, fourth chief justice of the Province of Quebec (b at New York C 18 June 1728; d at Quebec C 6 Dec 1793).
		Smith, a Yale graduate (1745), succeeded his father as a judge in New York (1767) and was subsequently chief justice there (1780).
		Smith is also known as an historian of NY state.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0007489 (140 words)

	Sewell or Sewall of Coventry - Person Page 4
		Louise Smith married Robert Shore Milnes Sewell, son of Chief Justice Jonathan/3 Sewell and Henrietta Smith, in 1829.
		Henry Doyle Sewell M.A., son of Chief Justice Jonathan/3 Sewell and Henrietta Smith, on 25 October 1844 in Hadlow, Kent, the marriage was conducted by the Rev. James Isaac Monypenny, Vicar of Hadlow and first cousin of the bride.
		William Sewell was the son of William Sewell and Matilda Horne.
	www.sewellgenealogy.com /p4.htm (5141 words)

	Law Wise - September 2005
		Chief Justice William Rehnquist was the assistant attorney general of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Nixon Administration from 1969 to his confirmation to the Supreme Court in 1971.
		However, the chief justice's primary power comes from the fact that, when on the majority side in deciding a case, he or she may decide to write the opinion or to assign it to the associate justice of his or her choice who is also on the majority side.
		The chief justice administers the oath of office to the president and is the head of the Judicial Conference of the United States, an administrative body that ensures the smooth running of the federal courts.
	www.kscourts.org /lawwise/sept2005.htm (7253 words)

	John William Smith--Soldier, Messenger, Patriot
		William John Smith, as he was christened, was born in Virginia on November 4, 1792, the second son of John and Isabel Smith.
		Smith's assumption proved to be incorrect, for a sentry claimed he saw the Mexican force on the 23rd of February.
		Smith remarked: 'Boys, it's time to be after shooting that fellow, at this, the man put spurs to his horse, sprung into the thicket, and was out of sight in a moment, before a gun could be brought to bear on him.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/smithjohnwilliam.htm (5226 words)

	Smith
		Both William and Elizabeth were buried in one grave in the Isle on the south side of the Font in the Parish Church at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire.
		William was buried on June 20, 1682 and Elizabeth on March 5, 1711/12.
		{Chief Justice} William Smith II remained a loyalist, and from 1776 to 1778 was confined to the limits of Livingston Manor, the home of his wife’s sister Margaret Livingston and {Col} Peter Robert Livingston, who were third cousins; their common ancestor being {Rev} John Livingston (1603 — 1672).
	www.robertsewell.ca /smith.html (2341 words)

	Biographies of the Attorneys General
		Black was elected chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1851, and reelected in 1854, President Buchanan appointed Black Attorney General of the United States on March 6, 1857.
		He was appointed Chief Justice of the Territory of Oregon in 1853, reappointed in 1857 and resigned in 1857.
		Williams was nominated to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1873, but was never confirmed.
	www.usdoj.gov /jmd/ls/agbiographies.htm (12842 words)

	New York Press
		Chief Justice De Lancey set bail far beyond Zenger’s means, requiring his imprisonment until trial.
		On April 15, 1735, Alexander and Smith appeared as Zenger’s counsel before Chief Justice De Lancey, challenging the court’s legality by arguing that Cosby’s appointment of De Lancey was unlawful.
		One juror, Edmund Bushell, sought a writ of habeas corpus.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=4522 (1341 words)

	Charles Blood Smith - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Charles Blood Smith, of Topeka, a lawyer of distinguished ability, was born in Oswego, Kendall county, Illinois, June 26, 1850, the eldest child of Dr. William Smith, who was first a physician and later a lawyer.
		William Smith was born in Massachusetts, in 1819, and in early youth removed with his parents from Massachusetts to Alleghany county, New York, where he prepared for the profession of medicine.
		William Smith returned to Kendall county, Illinois, with his bride and continued his practice there until 1851, when he removed to Ottawa, Ill., and from there to Geneseo, Henry county, Illinois, in 1859.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/s3/smith_charles_blood.html (1183 words)

	Smith
		Fortunately, over 200 years ago, Chief Justice William Smith had the foresight to record the history of his family as it was known to him.
		The records of Chief Justice William Smith (1728 — 1793) made during his visit to England with his son William Smith III (1769 — 1847) in 1784.
		Joshua Hett Smith was subsequently tried by a military court for his connection with the affair, and was acquitted, but taken into custody by the civil authorities and committed to jail.
	www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/smith.html (2236 words)

	John Roberts - MSN Encarta
		Roberts, an appointee of President George W. Bush, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2005 as the successor to the late William H. Rehnquist.
		(Rehnquist became chief justice in 1986.) Roberts was admitted to the bar in 1981.
		He served as special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith in the U.S. Department of Justice until 1982 and then as an associate counsel to the president under White House counsel Fred Fielding.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701765651/John_Roberts.html (533 words)

	Supreme Court - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		The term of the supreme judges, after the first, was to be six years, but to begin with and to secure individual alternation, the terms were respectively, six years for the chief justice, four years for one of the associate justices and two years for the other.
		By the terms of the constitutional amendment, adopted at the general election of 1900, it was provided that, after the expiration of the term of office of the then chief justice, the justice senior in continuous term of service should be chief justice.
		William A. Johnston was elected, Nov. 4, 1884, to succeed Judge Hurd, and qualified Dec. 1, 1884.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1912/s/supreme_court.html (676 words)

	Land Deed
		After Judge Wells acquired the New York title to the town in 1766 he sold and deeded 5400 acres in the west part of the south half to William Smith, Thomas Smith and Nicholas William Stuyvesant of the city of New York.
		They laid it out into lots covering the lots in the five ranges in the south half of the town from numbers five to 14 inclusive, with a tier of four lots end to end 200 rods long and 80 wide to the east of them, and divided the lots among themselves by partition deed.
		William Smith was chief justice of the province of New York.
	www.geocities.com /seekingthephoenix/l/landdeed.htm (452 words)

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		Justice Dickinson, the newest member of the Supreme Court, said he was surprised and pleased at his colleagues' willingness to let him speak passionately about positions he takes, whether they agree with him or not.
		Chief Justice Smith said the judge who is persuasive is not the one who is most forceful, but the one who is thoroughly familiar with the record of a case and can back up argument with facts.
		Chief Justice Smith said a recent study by a bench-bar committee identified case management and docket management as one of the biggest problems in the judiciary.
	www.mssc.state.ms.us /news/04.01.04ethics.htm (954 words)

	Zenger Trial: A Dramatic Interpretation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Chief Justice, James Delancey, who presided at the trial, was a wealthy adherent to Cosby's cause, and was only 32 years old at the time of the trial.
		When, as we will see, Chief Justice Delancey disbarred Alexander in reprisal for his moving to unseat him, the defense was left in a quandary.
		He was counsel to the family of William Penn in a celebrated case that spawned legal proceedings on both sides of the Atlantic.
	www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/zenger/pg3.htm (347 words)

	Chief justice favored Roberts - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died Saturday, played a key role in shaping Judge Roberts by making him a pupil during the early 1980s and propelling his career as a lawyer and federal judge in subsequent years.
		Ted Cruz, who clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist during the mid-1990s, recalled that he and fellow clerks once asked their boss whom he considered to be the most superior Supreme Court litigator.
		Smith, Judge Roberts was associate counsel to President Reagan from 1982 until 1986, when he entered private practice.
	www.washingtontimes.com /national/20050905-114118-7005r.htm (506 words)

	John Peter Zenger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges against the Governor William Cosby of the New York Colony in 1734 was an important contributing factor to the development of the freedom of the press in America.
		He was indentured to New York's only printer, William Bradford until 1718.
		It was almost certainly financed by one of the opposition political factions in New York politics, possibly by James Alexander who, along with William Smith was disbarred for objecting to the two man court Cosby had hand-picked.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Peter_Zenger (618 words)

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		William Smith O'Brien's trial was expected to be quite lengthy: over 40 depositions were sworn against him, and the names of 60 witnesses are on the bill of indictment.
		Smith O'Brien and the other prisoners were sent to Kilmainham pending their appeal to the Queens counsel.
		Reported that the Transportation Act in the transporting of William Smith O'Brien and his associates is now the law of the Land.
	www.originsnetwork.com /help/aboutio-obrien-trial.htm (522 words)

	Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sandra Day O'Connor, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and the first woman appointed to that high rank, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in July, 1981, and took the oath of office in September.
		Upon earning the LL.B. degree two years later, she was ranked third in a 102-member law-school class headed by William H. Rehnquist, a Chief Justice of the United States.
		Your dream, we perceive, was and is to be a judge - not a 'woman judge' nor even a 'first woman justice' but an effective and contributing practitioner of the arts of law and justice, as Dr. Blackwell was a practitioner of the arts of medicine and healing.
	campus.hws.edu /his/blackwell/bwaward/oconnor.html (734 words)

	Online NewsHour: Supreme Court Watch \| Chief Justice Roberts \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist from thyroid cancer, the president elevated Roberts' nomination to the chief justice position.
		Roberts stressed at his hearings that as chief justice, he would seek to build larger and clearer majorities in Supreme Court decisions.
		During the Reagan administration, he served as an aide to Attorney General William French Smith from 1981-1982 and as an aide to White House counsel Fred Fielding from 1982-1986.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/supreme_court/judge_roberts.html (1058 words)

	American Inns of Court InnSight - 10/01/2005
		The new Chief Justice is an active Master of the Bench and former officer of the Edward Coke Appellate American Inn of Court in Washington, DC where he has served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit since 2003.
		Chief Justice Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955 and grew up in Indiana, where he captained his high school football team and worked summers in a steel mill to help pay his way through college.
		Chief Justice Roberts served as Special Assistant to Attorney General William French Smith during 1981-82, where he advised the Attorney General, wrote speeches, and acted as the Attorney General's representative to other officials in the Executive Branch and state and local governments.
	newsmanager.commpartners.com /aiocis/issues/2005-10-01 (634 words)

	Jeremiah Smith Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Smith was admitted to the bar by the Court of Common Pleas, Hillsborough county, N. H., in the spring of 1786, and almost immediately took his place at the head of the bar.
		On the repeal of the Judiciary Law, in March, 1802, his office was abolished; but in May of the same year he was appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in New Hampshire.
		Smith was again appointed Chief Justice; but this act was rescinded in 1816, and he returned once more to the practice of law.
	www.surnameguide.com /smith/jeremiah_smith_genealogy.htm (542 words)

	Trial of John Peter Zenger
		Chief Justice, were present, it was determined to order Zenger's papers burnt by the public hangman.
		Chief Justice Holt, in his charge to the jury in Tutchin's Case, made no distinction whether Tutchin's papers were false or true.
		As Lord Chief Justice Holt once told a jury, "To say that corrupt officers are appointed to administer affairs is certainly a reflection on the government.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/zenger.html (8136 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Chief Justice William Rehnquist dies
		"The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his dues on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days," said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg, in a press statement.
		Rehnquist, 80, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1971 by President Nixon, and became chief justice in 1986, during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
		"Chief Justice Rehnquist was a great statesman and an asset to our nation's highest court," said Alan Sears, president, CEO and general counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, a prominent public interest law firm that champions religious liberty.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46137 (518 words)

	The Supreme Court: The Next Senatorial Assault May Be Even More Intemperate -- Paul M. Weyrich -- GOPUSA
		As of this writing a filibuster is so unlikely that Judge Roberts could become the Chief Justice of the United States, assuming that office when the Court reconvened October 3rd.
		Justices Scalia and Thomas did not fear breaking precedent when they believed federal law, such as Roe v Wade, upon which much of the Roberts hearing was focused, has not been decided properly.
		Justice O'Connor, President Reagan's first appointee to the Supreme Court, sometimes was a swing vote.
	www.gopusa.com /commentary/pweyrich/2005/pmw_0921p.shtml (943 words)

	Press Release Archive: CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST TO ADDRESS GW LAW SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT MAY 28
		A member of the Supreme Court since 1972, William Rehnquist was appointed chief justice in 1986.
		Chief Justice Rehnquist will be speaking within the first 30 minutes and his remarks are expected to last 20 minutes.
		A transcript of Chief Justice Rehnquist's remarks will be available after the speech at www.onlinemediaguide.org -- follow the link to "Press Releases." Media interested in covering this event should contact Matthew Nehmer in GW's Office of Public Affairs at (202) 994-6467.
	www.gwu.edu /~media/pressreleases/05-19-00-LSCommencement.html (346 words)

	President Nominates Judge Roberts to be Supreme Court Chief Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is in the interest of the Court and the country to have a chief justice on the bench on the first full day of the fall term.
		I'm certain that Chief Justice Rehnquist was hoping to welcome John Roberts as a colleague, and we're all sorry that day didn't come.
		Yet it's fitting that a great chief justice be followed in office by a person who shared his deep reverence for the Constitution, his profound respect for the Supreme Court, and his complete devotion to the cause of justice.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1479475/posts (1710 words)

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