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William Davis Shipman
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut · 1860
William Davis Shipman , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. William Davis Shipman (December 29, 1818 – September 24, 1898) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He notably presided over the 1861 trial of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person to be convicted and executed in the United States for illegal slave smuggling.
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Private practice, East Haddam, Connecticut, 1850-1854; Judge, Hartford [Connecticut] Probate Court, 1852-1853; State representative, Connecticut, 1853; U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, 1853-1860; Private practice, Hartford, Connecticut; Private practice, New York City, 1873-
Biography
William Davis Shipman (December 29, 1818 – September 24, 1898) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He notably presided over the 1861 trial of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person to be convicted and executed in the United States for illegal slave smuggling.
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