John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court
Subtitle: circuit riding in the old Southwest
By: Steven P. Brown
Contributors: McKinley, John, 1780-1852
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780817317713; 9780817386269
Subjects: Judges; United States. Supreme Court; United States; Circuit courts; Politicians; Biography; History
Notes: "Appendix: Justice John McKinley's Supreme Court Opinions and Dissents."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley; title: Logans, law, and political futility; title: Alabama fever and Georgia faction; title: The politics of political change; title: Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington; title: The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court; title: The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842; title: Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852; title: The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.