Spencer Roane
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Spencer Roane was a Virginia lawyer, politician and jurist. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates for six years and a year in the Commonwealth's small executive branch. The majority of his publ
Justice Spencer Roane, 1809
George Wythe
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George Wythe was an American academic, scholar, and judge who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The first of the seven signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence
Spencer Roane
…schooling at home, under a Scottish tutor named Bradfute. He then entered the College of William and Mary aged 14, to study law under the tutelage of George Wythe, from whom he gained great appreciation of Edward Coke and the English system of property rights, as well as constitutional law, but disliked studying…
Posthumous portrait attributed to John Trumbull, c. 1927
The George Wythe House in Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia
In John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, Wythe is in profile farthest to the viewer's left. Trumbull's 1818 painting was used for the back of the U.S. $2 bill, but Wythe's image was cut out of that depiction.
Posthumous engraving by James B. Longacre, after William Satchwell Leney, c. 1825