The Middle District covers 70 counties from Athens to Albany and Valdosta. The U.S. Attorney prosecutes federal offenses in ...

William Wirt lived in the home until he was tapped to become President James Monroe’s Attorney General; he then sold it to Benjamin Tate, a former Richmond mayor. This event is only open to ...

Consider again Lincoln Attorney General Edward Bates's 1862 ... Bates reversed a prior opinion by James Madison's AG William Wirt. Wirt had reasoned that free people of color in Virginia were not ...

Lash briefly discusses an 1821 opinion by James Madison's Attorney General William Wirt in which Wirt denied the citizenship of free people of color in Virginia.

William Wirt, a noted orator and U.S. attorney general during the 19th century, published the first account of the speech more than 40 years after it was delivered.

Sure, such an intervention would be inadvisable, as Attorney General William Wirt warned President James Monroe in 1821, because “it is an impolitic relaxation of the laws and holds out an ...

Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”) are investigating the proposed ...

Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney General of the U.S., Vol. I. by John P. Kennedy. Publication date 1850 Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English ...

Virginia statesman and rousing orator Patrick Henry demanded, "Give me liberty or give me death!" while calling on colony to raise troops on this day in history, March 23, 1775.

The text of the address was not published until 1817 in a biography of Henry by William Wirt, a future attorney general under James Monroe. To reconstruct the speech, Wirt interviewed eyewitnesses ...

The following is a transcript of an interview with former Attorney General William Barr that aired on "Face the Nation" on June 18, 2023. Latest U.S.

The prosecution team included George Hay, district attorney for Virginia, and William Wirt, personally assigned by Jefferson and, later, the ninth U.S. Attorney General and biographer of Patrick Henry ...