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About Samuel Nelson
Samuel Nelson was an American attorney and appointed as judge of New York State courts. He was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1872. He concurred on the 1857 Dred Scott decision, although for reasons different from Chief Justice Taney's.
Everything about Samuel Nelson →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge
- Position held
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 10, 1792
- Died
- September 13, 1873, December 13, 1873