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Spencer Roane

ROANE, Spencer, jurist, born in Essex, Virginia, 4 April, 1762; died in Sharon Springs, Virginia, 4 September, 1822. He studied law with George Wythe, and also in Philadelphia, after which he was a member successively of the Virginia assembly, council, and senate. He was appointed a judge in 1789 of the general court, and in 1794 of the court of errors. In 1819 he was one of the commissioners for locating the University of Virginia. His wife was the daughter of Patrick Henry. Judge Roane was a Jeffersonian Republican, and wrote several essays under the name of "Algernon Sidney," asserting the supremacy of the state in a question of conflicting authority between Virginia and the United States, which were published in the" Richmond Enquirer."

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in Congress Assembled
March 1, 1781 to July 6, 1781

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