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Justice Howell Jackson

On this date in 1895, Justice Howell Jackson died in Nashville, Tennessee. Howell Jackson was born in Paris, Tennessee on April 8, 1832 and raised in Jackson, Tennessee. Jackson graduated with an A.B. in 1849 from West Tennessee College in Jackson, Tennessee. He went on to attend the University of Virginia for two years. After […]

Justice Thomas Johnson

On this date in 1791, President George Washington nominated Thomas Johnson to serve as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court to the seat left vacant by the resignation of Justice John Rutledge (who would a few years later serve as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court). Thomas Johnson was born on […]

Justice William Johnson

On this date in 1834, Justice William Johnson, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, died at age 62 in New York, NY after undergoing jaw surgery. William Johnson was born in December, 1771 in Charleston, South Carolina the son of two revolutionaries. Johnson studied law at Princeton where he graduated with an A.B. […]

Larry Richards joined the faculty of Lake Region State College as adjunct faculty this summer.  Larry taught Accounting 215: Business in a Legal Environment at the college’s campus located at the Grand Forks Air Force Base.  The eight week basic business law course covered a whole variety of topics which included agency, contracts, business structures, employment law, […]