Robert Cooper Grier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Cooper Grier

American judge

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1794

Place of Birth: Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1870

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Robert Cooper Grier (March 5, 1794 – September 25, 1870), was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States.
A Jacksonian Democrat from Pennsylvania who served from 1846 to 1870, Grier weighed in on some of the most important cases of the 19th century.
As a rare Northern member of the majority in the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, Grier concurred that African Americans were not and were never meant to be citizens of the United States and that the property rights of slaveholders were clearly protected in the US Constitution.
However, Grier wrote the majority opinion in the 1863 Prize Cases, upholding Abraham Lincoln's presidential power to institute Union blockades of Confederate ports and giving the Union Army a strategic advantage in the American Civil War.



Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat