Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P14 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 118 BREWSTER BENJAMIN HARRIS books including The Pew to the Pulpit The Twentieth Century from Another Viewpoint American Citizenship and The United States A Christian Nation. He felt strongly that judges have a moral obligation to use their lofty position to lead rather than simply observe. It is one thing he once said to fail of reaching your ideal. It is an entirely different thing to deliberately turn your back on it. Brewer died in Washington . on March 28 1910. FURTHER READINGS Brodhead Michael J. 1994. David J. Brewer The Life of a Supreme Court Justice 1837-1910. Carbondale Southern Illinois Univ. Press. Hylton Joseph Gordon. 1994. David Josiah Brewer A Conservative Justice Reconsidered. In Journal of Supreme Court History. 45-64. Schwartz Bernard. 1995. A History of the Supreme Court. 2d ed. New York Oxford Univ. Press. V BREWSTER BENJAMIN HARRIS Benjamin Harris Brewster was the 37th attorney general of the United States serving from 1881 to 1885 in the administration of President Chester Arthur. Previously Brewster was appointed by President james polk as a special commissioner for the adjudication of claims by the members of the Cherokee Indian tribe against the U. S. government. Brewster was born in Salem County New Jersey on October 13 1816. In 1834 he graduated from Princeton College. Like many other aspiring lawyers of the period Brewster did not attend law school. Instead these aspirants read law by performing various clerical and administrative duties for a lawyer who had already been admitted to the bar. Brewster studied under a Philadelphia attorney named Eli Price. After mastering the necessary requirements Brewster took and passed the bar exam in 1838. After his admittance to the Pennsylvania bar he continued to practice law in Philadelphia. Although he had established a lucrative law practice Brewster like many other ambitious young lawyers his age became interested in politics and government service. Brewster had a personal connection his .
