Walter Dorsey
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Walter Dorsey (March 17, 1771 – July 31, 1823)[1] was a Maryland politician and judge who served as a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1817 to 1823.[2][3]
Career
Born in Maryland to Colonel John Dorsey and Mary Hammond Dorsey, Dorsey was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates representing St. Mary's County, Maryland, in 1794, and returned to that body representing the city of Baltimore in 1797.[1] On February 9, 1800, he was appointed chief judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Baltimore City and County.[1] He served on the Governor's Council from 1812 to 1813,[1] and as a judge of the Court of Appeals from his appointment on March 14, 1817 until his death in August, 1823.[1][3]
At the time of his death, he had a "large and successful law school" in Baltimore,[4] such that when David Hoffman was appointed professor of law at the University of Maryland in 1814, he was unable to begin lecturing immediately due to the competition provided by Dorsey's program.[5]
Personal life and death
On July 8, 1795, Dorsey married Hopewell Hebb, with whom he had eight children.[1] Dorsey died in Philadelphia at the age of 52.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Walter Dorsey (1771-1823)". Archives of Maryland. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
- ^ "Maryland Court of Appeals Judges, 1778–". Archives of Maryland. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
- ^ a b John Thomas Scharf, "Judges of the Court of Appeals", History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day (1879), p. 773.
- ^ Daniel R. Coquillette, Bruce A. Kimball, On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century (2015), p. 75.
- ^ Columbia University Press, Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, Vol. 575 (1952), p. 106.
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