| LC control no. | n 85367543 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Iredell, James, 1751-1799 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Marcus, 1751-1799 |
| Associated country | England United States |
| Associated place | North Carolina |
| Birth date | 1751-10-05 |
| Death date | 1799-10-20 |
| Place of birth | Lewes (England) |
| Place of death | Edenton (N.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Supreme Court |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Justices Essayists |
| Found in | Davis, J. Alfred Moore and James Iredell, revolutionary patriots and Assoc. Justices of the Supreme Ct. of the U.S., 1899. LC in OCLC, 2-17-86 (hdg.: Iredell, James, 1751-1799) Encyclopaedia Britannica website, viewed April 9, 2019 (James Iredell, United States jurist; born Oct. 5, 1751, Lewes, Sussex, Eng.- died Oct. 20, 1799, Edenton, N.C., U.S.; associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1790-99); a leader of the North Carolina Federalists in supporting ratification of the Constitution, and his letters in its defense (published over the name Marcus) are said to have prompted President George Washington to appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court. He wsa the original court's youngest member) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Iredell> North Carolina history project website, viewed April 9, 2019 (James Iredell, Sr. (1751-1799); a lawyer and political essayist; born in England, Iredell sailed to America in 1768, at age seventeen, to be King George III's comptroller of customs in the northeastern North Carolina village of Edenton; a dispute with the Crown over colonial court laws produced what was probably Iredell's first political article and marked him as the literary leader of the North Carolina Whigs. His later treatise, "Principles of an American Whig," predates and bears unmistakable consanguinity with the American Declaration of Independence) <https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/james-iredell-sr-1751-1799/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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