Template:Did you know nominations/Amasa Eaton
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The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 20:22, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
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Amasa Eaton
Eaton c. 1900
- ... that Amasa Eaton (pictured) wrote the first law review article to be cited in a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States? [1] (p. 788) ("This first happened in 1897 when Justice Edward White referred in his dissenting opinion ... to an article ... written by Amasa Eaton")
- ALT1:... that Amasa Eaton (pictured) was first elected to municipal government in Providence, Rhode Island, two years after graduating from Brown University? [2] ("As early as 1863, but two years after his graduation from Brown University, he was the successful candidate from his ward to the North Providence Town Council ...")
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Types Riot
- Comment: Throwing in the image since I was delighted to find it, but certainly not wedded to it. By my count the article has 1691 bytes of prose at the moment, so above the limit but by no means massive. Hoping to find some more info to build it out.
Created by AleatoryPonderings (talk). Self-nominated at 03:23, 29 April 2021 (UTC).
