John Lansing Wendell

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John Lansing Wendell
Born2 January 1785 Edit this on Wikidata
Died19 December 1861 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 76)
ChildrenAnna Mary Wendell Minturn Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • Cornelius Wendell Edit this on Wikidata
  • Anna Lansing Edit this on Wikidata

John Lansing Wendell (2 January 1785-19 December 1861) was an American judge.

Wendell was born in Albany, New York, on 2 January 1785, and died in Hartford, Connecticut on 19 December 1861, at the age of 76. He was a descendant of one of the Dutch families of New York. He was educated in Albany and Cambridge, New York, his family having' removed to the latter place about 1795. He there entered the law-office of his brother, , became a member of the Albany bar, subsequently judge of Washington county, and was for many years reporter of the supreme court of the state of New York. He published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Judicature of New York, 1828-'41 (26 vols., Albany, 1829-'42), and Digest of Cases, Supreme Court of New York, 1828-'35 (1836); and edited Starkie's Law of Slander (2 vols., Albany, 1843), and Blackstone's Commentaries (4 vols., New York city, 1847).

public domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainWilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). "Wendell, John Lansing". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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