Curtis,Benjamin Robbins

Curtis,Benjamin Robbins
Cur·tis (kûrʹtĭs), Benjamin Robbins. 1809-1874.
American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1851-1857). He resigned in protest after the Dred Scott decision.

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