John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court: Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest

by Steven P. Brown

Provides a penetrating analysis of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculator and lawyer, McKinley was elected to the state legislature three times and became first a senator and then a representative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817360808
• ISBN13: 9780817360801
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 to Postsecondary