1. Theron Metcalf was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts.
12 Facts About Theron Metcalf
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Theron Metcalf was a New England jurist and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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Theron Metcalf graduated from Brown University in 1805, and studied law at the Litchfield Law School after graduation.
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Theron Metcalf opened a law school in Dedham in 1828 where he gave lectures.
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Theron Metcalf was appointed Reporter of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1839, and sat on the bench of that court from February 24,1848, until his resignation on August 31,1865.
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Theron Metcalf's annotations were considered valuable for their philosophical investigation and discriminating analysis.
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Theron Metcalf was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1807, and moved to Dedham, Massachusetts in 1809 to practice law.
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Theron Metcalf served as Norfolk County Attorney for twelve years, until the position was eliminated.
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Theron Metcalf defended the arsonist who admitted to burning down the Phoenix Hotel.
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Theron Metcalf was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1844.
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Theron Metcalf delivered an address before Phi Beta Kappa society of Brown in 1832, and in 1840 delivered the Fourth of July oration at Dedham.
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Theron Metcalf donated a set of fifty volumes of ordination sermons that he had collected to Brown University.