George Nicholas
American lawyer
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| Intro | American lawyer | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| was | Lawyer | ||||||
| Work field | Law | ||||||
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| Birth | 1754 | ||||||
| Death | 25 July 1799 (aged 45 years) | ||||||
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Biography
George Nicholas (c. 1754 – July 25, 1799) was the first professor of law at Transylvania University in Kentucky. He was also briefly attorney general of Kentucky, and had been several times a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the son of Robert C. Nicholas, Sr.; his brothers included Wilson Cary Nicholas. He was the father of Robert C. Nicholas. He was a friend and correspondent of James Madison; he was also extremely obese, and Madison laughed until he cried at a caricature of Nicholas, during the Virginia convention to ratify the United States Constitution, as a plum pudding with legs.
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"If the federal government try to reach any supplementally condition to impose upon us, we would be in Virginia exonerated."
External Links
- Guide to the Reuben T. Durrett Collection of George Nicholas Papers 1788-1890 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center