Talk:William P. Fessenden

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Fessenden argued a significant self-defense case

In 1837, Fessenden argued for the defendant in The State v. Field, 14 Maine 244, a case involving admissibilty of evidence of the character of the deceased in a trial turning on killing in self-defense. Details of the case can be found in _Select American cases on the law of self-defence_ (Horrigan & Thompson, Soule Thomas & Wentworth, 1874, file cu31924020148635 0n archive.org.

Whether that’s worth including in this article I leave to those who are more directly concerned with this subject.

Poihths (talk) 02:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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William P. Fessenden (October 16, 1806 – September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the state of Maine. He served in the United States House of Representatives and the Senate before becoming Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. This line engraving of Fessenden was produced around 1902 by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of a BEP presentation album of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury.

Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva

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