1. John Bouvier was a French-American jurist and legal lexicographer known for his legal writings, particularly his Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union.
18 Facts About John Bouvier
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John Bouvier published The Institutes of American Law and an edition of Matthew Bacon's Abridgment of the Law.
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Women's rights and suffrage advocates Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton cited Bouvier for contributing to passage in Pennsylvania of the Married Woman's Property Act of 1848; suffragist Alice Paul cited him for his commitment to expanding women's property rights.
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John Bouvier was born in 1787 in Codognan, France, in the department du Gard, to Jean Bouvier and Marie Benezet.
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John Bouvier's father died within a year of yellow fever, and his mother later returned to France.
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John Bouvier was apprenticed to age 21 to a Philadelphia Quaker, Benjamin Johnson, a printer and bookseller who had known the family while traveling in France.
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In 1808, John Bouvier began a printing business on Cypress Alley in west Philadelphia.
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John Bouvier became a citizen of the United States in 1812.
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In 1818, John Bouvier moved to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where he joined with another periodical to publish The Genius of Liberty and American Telegraph.
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John Bouvier continued to be involved in its publication until July 18,1820.
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John Bouvier was admitted to the bar in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1818.
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John Bouvier was appointed Recorder of the City of Philadelphia in 1836, by Governor Joseph Ritner, and became an associate justice of the court of criminal sessions of Philadelphia in 1838.
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John Bouvier was best known for his legal writings.
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John Bouvier hoped that being "written entirely anew, and calculated to remedy those defects, [it] would be useful to the profession".
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John Bouvier himself revised and published new editions in 1843 and 1848.
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John Bouvier published an edition of Matthew Bacon's Abridgment of the Law, and a compendium of American law entitled The Institutes of American Law that outlined legal principles such as bailment, contracts, and property.
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John Bouvier died on November 18,1851, a week after being "stricken with apoplexy" while working at his office.
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John Bouvier is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.