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• William Short
  ...was ultimately not confirmed; the position was later filled by John Quincy Adams.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Short settled in Philadelphia and spent his time managing
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• James Innes
  ...ding the opportunity to be Attorney General of the United States, and John Adams's request that he be minister to France in 1797.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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• Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson
  ...them while in Congress, Richard Henry Lee and George Wythe, solicited John Adams, their accomplished New England colleague, to write out his "Thoughts on Go ...either Lee's plan, or one drawn up by Henry from the two papers of Lee and Adams. These may be compared now with the Jefferson Constitution here for the fir
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• Jefferson's Constitution for Virginia
  ...the other read with approval the 'Thoughts on Government' written by John Adams. Adams had addressed his pamphlet to George Wythe. It was Wythe who carried to the
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• American Biographical and Historical Dictionary
  ...AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA286|''The New Pocket Biographical Dictionary,''] (Baltimore: John Kingston, 1811), 286-290.</ref>, the [[Media:RogersNewAmericanDictionaryOfB ...ich were adopted in the administration of [[wikipedia:John Adams|president Adams]], and reprobated the alien and sedition laws, and the raising of the army;
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• Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
  ...iographies of Edmund Pendleton, [[George Wythe]], John Blair, Peter Lyons, John Tyler, Sr., James Mercer, Henry Tazewell, Richard Parker, Spencer Roane, [[ ...h ''v.'' Caton, ''et al.'']] 4 Call, p. 5. John Caton, Joshua Hopkins, and John Lamb were condemned for treason. They were tried and convicted in the Gen-
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• Balance, and Columbian Repository, 10 May 1803
  ...pository,'' May 10, 1803, 146.</ref> which misattributes a section of John Adams' ''Thoughts on Government'' (1776), as an extract of a letter from [[Thomas ...,] ''The Papers of John Adams,'' vol. 4, Massachusetts Historical Society; Adams tells the story of the pamphlet's composition in a letter to [http://www.ma
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• Teacher of Jefferson and Marshall
  ...erson, Dice Robins," in ''Dictionary of Virginia Biography,'' vol. 1, eds. John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway ( ...her of the law. His chief aim, as he wrote in 1783 to his dear friend John Adams, was: "to form such characters as may be fit to succeed those which have be
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• Weekly Register, 3 July 1813
  ...e have been particularly requested to record the following letter of Mr. ''Adams:'' ...&amp;c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''JOHN ADAMS."'''
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• Bicentennial Postcards
  ...vice issued 30 postcards depicting individuals such as Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and Nathan Hale. ...orge Wythe &mdash; Patriot," and featured a print of [[Depictions of Wythe|John Ferguson Weir’s portrait of Wythe]], which still hangs in [http://www.nps
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• Glimpses of Old College Life, January 1900
  ...and Mary College Quarterly,'' January, 1900, featuring letters from Judge John Coalter during his time as a law student under [[George Wythe]].]] In the correspondence of [[John Coalter]], formerly judge of the Supreme Court of Virginia, are many letter
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• Virginia Argus, 17 June 1806
  ...[[wikipedia:Benjamin Franklin|Franklin]], [[wikipedia:Samuel Adams|Samuel Adams]], and many others, who are indeed removed from this troublesome world, and ...9, he was an opponent of the administration of [[wikipedia:John Adams|John Adams]], of alien and sedition laws, and standing armies. Always the friend of li
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• Murder of George Wythe
  ...Law School] on September 25, 1954, for the bicentennial of [[John Marshall|John Marshall's]] birth. The journal pairs Boyd's essay on "[[Media:BoydMurderOf ...that wash held by only a few in America at that time, among them Franklin, Adams, Sherman, and Jefferson. "On the first dawn of that [Revolution]," [[Notes
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• Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  ...my letter of [[Jefferson-Sanderson Correspondence|August 31, 1820, to Mr. John Saunderson]]. [See [[#Page 91|Appendix, note A]].] ..., Randolph, the Lees, Nicholas, Pendleton, stopped at the halfway house of John Dickinson, who admitted that England had a right to regulate our commerce,
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• Teaching of George Wythe
  ...ion's jurisprudence, for he taught such noted federal and state jurists as John Marshall, Bushrod Washington, and Spencer Roane. Wythe instructed so well t ...a Convention of 1776|''The Virginia Convention of 1776'']] (1855), 119-30; John Sherman, "George Wythe, the Neglected Patriot: A Bibliography," 34 ''Bull.
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• Henry Clay
  |2ndofficepreceded=John Quincy Adams ...idential campaign, Clay was appointed Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams.<ref>United States Senate website, s.v. "Henry Clay."</ref> He served in th
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• George Wythe Courts the Muses
  ...ren-Adams Letters, Being Chiefly a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren,'' I, 276, in Massachusetts Historical Society ''Collecti ³ Samuel Adams to James Warren, November 9, 1776. ''Warren-Adams Letters,'' I, 276.
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• Bushrod Washington
  ...ame, 1974), 26.</ref> During this period Washington became acquainted with John Marshall, a fellow Wythe student.<ref>Ibid., 27.</ref> Although it is uncle ...s colleagues.<ref>David Leslie Annis, "Mr. Bushrod Washington," 2.</ref> [[John Marshall]] was a close friend of Washington’s, and the two generally agre
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• Agreement of Secrecy
  ...ton, D.C.: Way and Gideon, 1823), 7, 55.</ref> [[wikipedia:John Adams|John Adams]] mentions he is under an "engagement of secrecy" in a letter to [[wikipedi ...D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921), 249. See also 255n2, for Adams' mentions of secrecy.</ref>
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• Seals of Virginia
  ...ia1911.pdf|The Seals of Virginia]]" at the request of the State Librarian, John P. Kennedy.<ref> Edward S. Evans, "[[Media:EvansSealsOfVirginia1911.pdf|The Resolved, that George Wythe, and [[wikipedia:John Page (Virginia politician)|John Page]], Esquires, be desired to superintend the engraving the said seal, an
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