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    <title>Smith Thompson papers, 1765-1831 (bulk 1823-1831)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thompson, Smith</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1768-1843</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, legal notes, and other papers relating primarily to various Supreme Court cases and to personal affairs.  Of particular note is Thompson's draft of his dissenting opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831).  Correspondents include Henry Davis, John A. Fort, Jonathan Little, Edward P. Livingston, William Radcliff, Samuel L. Southard, and Robert Williams.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. secretary of the navy.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1771-1852</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fort, John A</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Little, Jonathan</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Livingston, Edward P. (Edward Philip)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1779-1843</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Radcliff, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1768-1842</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Southard, Samuel L. (Samuel Lewis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1842</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Williams, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1773-1836</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Supreme Court.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cherokee Indians</topic>
    <topic>Legal status, laws, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cherokee Nation</topic>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Constitutional law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Legal status, laws, etc</topic>
    <geographic>Georgia</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Georgia</geographic>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <occupation>Cabinet officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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