David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

One of Abraham Lincoln’s staunchest and most effective allies, Judge David Davis masterminded the floor fight that gave Lincoln the presidential nomination at the 1860 Republican National Convention. This history-changing event emerged from a long friendship between the two men. It also altered the course of Davis’s career, as Lincoln named him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1862. Raymond J. McKoski offers a biography of Davis’s public life, his impact on the presidency and judiciary, and his personal, professional, and political relationships with Lincoln. Davis lent his vast network of connections, organizational and leadership abilities, and personal persuasiveness to help Lincoln’s political rise. When Davis became a judge, he honed an ability to hear each case with complete impartiality, a practice that endeared him to Lincoln but one day put him at odds with the president over important Civil War–era rulings. McKoski details these cases while providing an in-depth account of Davis’s role in Lincoln’s two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. Senate and the fateful run for the presidency.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-22
Mått:156 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt:653 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
ISBN:9780252046636

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Centralt styre och förvaltning inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Juristyrken inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Raymond J. McKoski is a retired Illinois Circuit Judge and adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. He is the author of Judges in Street Clothes: Acting Ethically Off-the-Bench.

Recensioner i media

“Drawing on his more than two decades of experience as a trial judge, historical researcher, and expert on judicial ethics, Raymond J. McKoski restores David Davis’s place in state and federal judicial history as a model of impartiality on the bench. In an era when Americans have become increasingly skeptical about partisanship and the courts, Judge Davis serves as a model of judicial decision making.”--Jonathan W. White, author of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize-winning A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction A Biographical Sketch of David Davis Part I Davis, Lincoln, and the U.S. Senate Lincoln’s First U.S. Senate Campaign Lincoln’s Second Senate Defeat Part II Davis, Lincoln, and the Presidency Davis Secures Lincoln’s 1860 Presidential Nomination Davis and the 1860 General Election Part III Davis, Lincoln, and the U.S. Supreme Court Lincoln Puts Davis on the Supreme Court Justice Davis and Wartime Presidential Edicts Part IV Judge Davis: A Model of Judicial Impartiality Impartiality on the Trial Court Bench Impartiality on the Supreme Court Bench Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index