Trial of Susan B. Anthony
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United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the criminal trial of Susan B. Anthony in a U.S. federal court in 1873. The defendant was a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was arrested for voting in
Susan B. Anthony
John Van Voorhis
Henry R. Selden
The site of Anthony's trial: Ontario County Courthouse, Canandaigua, New York
Ward Hunt
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Ward Hunt was an American jurist and politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1868 to 1869, and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1872 to 1882.
Trial of Susan B. Anthony
…of which reads, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." The judge, Ward Hunt, was a recently appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice who had responsibility for the federal circuit court in which the trial was held. He did not allow…
Ward Hunt c. 1870-80