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==Full-length Biographies==
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==Full-length biographies==
  
 
*Blackburn, Joyce. ''George Wythe of Williamsburg.'' New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
 
*Blackburn, Joyce. ''George Wythe of Williamsburg.'' New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
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*Shewmake, Oscar L. ''[http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/1374/ The Honourable George Wythe: Teacher, Lawyer, Jurist, Statesman: An Address Delivered Before the Wythe Law Club of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Dec. 18, 1921]''. Richmond, Va., 1950.
 
*Shewmake, Oscar L. ''[http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/1374/ The Honourable George Wythe: Teacher, Lawyer, Jurist, Statesman: An Address Delivered Before the Wythe Law Club of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Dec. 18, 1921]''. Richmond, Va., 1950.
  
==Biographical Articles==
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==Biographical articles==
 
*Allen, William. "Wythe (George)." In ''[[American Biographical and Historical Dictionary|An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in North America from Its First Discovery to the Present Time, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies, and of the United States]]'', 627-631. Cambridge, MA: William Hilliard, 1809.   
 
*Allen, William. "Wythe (George)." In ''[[American Biographical and Historical Dictionary|An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in North America from Its First Discovery to the Present Time, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies, and of the United States]]'', 627-631. Cambridge, MA: William Hilliard, 1809.   
  
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*"Wythe, George." In ''[[National Cyclopaedia of American Biography|The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, Being the History of The United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time]]'', 3:308-309. New York: James T. White, 1893.
 
*"Wythe, George." In ''[[National Cyclopaedia of American Biography|The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, Being the History of The United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time]]'', 3:308-309. New York: James T. White, 1893.
  
==Wythe as Judge==
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==Wythe the judge==
 
*Holt, Wythe. "[http://www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume%2058/Issue%205/Holt.pdf George Wythe: Early Modern Judge.]" ''Alabama Law Review'' 58, no. 5 (2007): 1009-1039.
 
*Holt, Wythe. "[http://www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume%2058/Issue%205/Holt.pdf George Wythe: Early Modern Judge.]" ''Alabama Law Review'' 58, no. 5 (2007): 1009-1039.
  
==Wythe as Teacher==
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==Wythe the teacher==
 
*Douglas, Davison M. "[http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/popular_media/3 Jefferson's Vision Fulfilled: The Nation's Oldest Law School Celebrates 230 Years of Educating Citizen Lawyers.]" ''William & Mary Alumni Magazine'' (Winter 2010): 48-51.
 
*Douglas, Davison M. "[http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/popular_media/3 Jefferson's Vision Fulfilled: The Nation's Oldest Law School Celebrates 230 Years of Educating Citizen Lawyers.]" ''William & Mary Alumni Magazine'' (Winter 2010): 48-51.
  
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*Reveley, W. Taylor, III. "[http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/75 W & M Law School Came First. Why Care?]" ''University of Toledo Law Review'' 35 (2003): 185-188.
 
*Reveley, W. Taylor, III. "[http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/75 W & M Law School Came First. Why Care?]" ''University of Toledo Law Review'' 35 (2003): 185-188.
  
==Wythe's Death==
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==Wythe's death==
 
*Berexa, Daniel P. "The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe." ''Tennessee Bar Journal'' (January 2011): 22-29.
 
*Berexa, Daniel P. "The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe." ''Tennessee Bar Journal'' (January 2011): 22-29.
  
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*"[[Virginia Argus, 10 June 1806|We this day perform the painful task of announcing the death of the Venerable George Wythe...]]." ''Virginia Argus'', June 10, 1806.
 
*"[[Virginia Argus, 10 June 1806|We this day perform the painful task of announcing the death of the Venerable George Wythe...]]." ''Virginia Argus'', June 10, 1806.
  
==Wythe's Library==
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==Wythe's library==
  
 
*Brown, Bennie. "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond." unpublished manuscript, May, 2012. Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
 
*Brown, Bennie. "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond." unpublished manuscript, May, 2012. Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.

Revision as of 14:52, 1 May 2014

Full-length biographies

  • Blackburn, Joyce. George Wythe of Williamsburg. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
  • Brown, Imogene E. American Aristides: A Biography of George Wythe. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1981.
  • Clarkin, William. Serene Patriot: A Life of George Wythe. Albany, New York: Alan Publications, 1970.
  • Dill, Alonzo Thomas. George Wythe: Teacher of Liberty. Williamsburg, Va.: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1979.
  • Kirtland, Robert Bevier. George Wythe: Lawyer, Revolutionary, Judge. New York: Garland, 1986.
  • Loker, Aleck. George Wythe: Venerable Statesman, Jurist and Educator. Williamsburg, Va.: Solitude Press, 2007.

Biographical articles

  • Lewis, J. L., Jr. "Prize Biography: George Wythe." Literary Inquirer 3, no. 2 (30 July 1834): 13.
  • Minor, B. B. "Memoir of the Author." In Decisions of Cases In Virginia, by the High Court Chancery, with Remarks Upon Decrees By the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions, by George Wythe, edited by B. B. Minor, xi-xxxx. Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph, 1852.
  • Taylor, Lyon G. and Charles Washington Coleman. "Glimpses of Old College Life." William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine 8, no. 3 (January 1900), 153-160
  • Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. "George Wythe." In Great American Lawyers, edited by William Draper Lewis, 51-90. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John C Winston, 1907.
  • William R. Smith, "George Wythe," in Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, edited by John Sanderson, 2:161-184. Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1823. Reprinted in Sanderson's Biographies of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, edited by Robert T. Conrad, 633-644. Philadelphia: William Brotherhead, 1865; and An Outline of the Political and Social Life of George Washington, and Biographical Sketches of the Lives of the Fifty-six Signers of the Declaration of Independence, edited by in James Tyson, 2:196-212. Oakland, CA: Pacific Press, 1895.
  • "Wythe, George." In Encyclopædia Americana, edited by Francis Lieber, 13:287. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833.

Wythe the judge

Wythe the teacher

  • Hunter, Thomas. "The Teaching of George Wythe." In The History of Legal Education in the United States: Commentaries and Primary Sources, edited by Steve Sheppard, 1:138-168. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999.

Wythe's death

  • Berexa, Daniel P. "The Murder of Founding Father George Wythe." Tennessee Bar Journal (January 2011): 22-29.
  • Chadwick, Bruce. I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing that Shocked a New Nation. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
  • Hemphill, W. Edwin. "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay." The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955): 543-574.
  • Munford, George Wythe. "Chancellor Wythe's Death." In The Two Parsons; Cupid's Sports; The Dream; and The Jewels of Virginia, 414-433. Richmond, Virginia: J.D.K. Sleight, 1884.

Wythe's library

  • LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on May 1, 2014.