John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court: Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest, Steven P. Brown, University of Press, 2012, 0817317716, 9780817317713, 313 pages. John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780–1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley’s time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama.  Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with and , who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculator and lawyer, McKinley was elected to the state legislature three times and became first a senator and then a representative in the US Congress before being elevated to the Supreme Court in 1837. He spent his first five years on the court presiding over the newly created Ninth Circuit, which covered Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. His was not only the newest circuit, encompassing a region that, because of its recent settlement, included a huge number of legal claims related to property, but it was also the largest, the furthest from Washington, DC, and by far the most difficult to traverse.  While this is a thorough biography of McKinley’s life, it also details early Alabama state politics and provides one of the most exhaustive accounts available of the internal workings of the antebellum Supreme Court and the very real challenges that accompanied the now-abandoned practice of circuit riding. In providing the first indepth assessment of the life and Supreme Court career of Justice John McKinley, Brown has given us a compelling portrait of a man active in the leading financial, legal, and political circles of his day..

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John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780–1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley’s time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama.

Steven P. Brown rescues from obscurity John McKinley, one of the three Alabama justices, along with John Archibald Campbell and Hugo Black, who have served on the US Supreme Court. A native Kentuckian who moved in 1819 to northern Alabama as a land speculator and lawyer, McKinley was elected to the state legislature three times and became first a senator and then a representative in the US Congress before being elevated to the Supreme Court in 1837. He spent his first five years on the court presiding over the newly created Ninth Circuit, which covered Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. His was not only the newest circuit, encompassing a region that, because of its recent settlement, included a huge number of legal claims related to property, but it was also the largest, the furthest from Washington, DC, and by far the most difficult to traverse.

While this is a thorough biography of McKinley’s life, it also details early Alabama state politics and provides one of the most exhaustive accounts available of the internal workings of the antebellum Supreme Court and the very real challenges that accompanied the now-abandoned practice of circuit riding. In providing the first indepth assessment of the life and Supreme Court career of Justice John McKinley, Brown has given us a compelling portrait of a man active in the leading financial, legal, and political circles of his day.

“Students of southern history and Alabama history, as well as legal scholars and the state and national legal communities, will appreciate this longoverdue revision of Justice John McKinley’s historical reputation. With this book, Steven Brown has established himself as the authority on the life and times of Justice McKinley and, to a significant degree, the antebellum US Supreme Court.”—R. Volney Riser, author of Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890–1908 Steven P. Brown is an associate professor of political science at Auburn University and author of Trumping Religion: The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts, which received the National Communication Association’s Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression.

I am grateful for the opportunity to research and write about the life of Justice John McKinley. I knew a good deal about both Justices Hugo Black and John Archibald Campbell before I moved to Auburn in 1998, but it was only upon arriving here that I learned of Alabama’s first Supreme Court justice. Since that time...

The most signiacant incident in the series of events that culminated in McKinley’s 1837 appointment to the Supreme Court occurred several years before he left . On August 9, 1814, forced the reek Indians to sign a treaty ceding twenty-two million acres of their land to the U.S. government...

There are considerable differences between the modern-day Supreme Court and its antebellum predecessor. Today’s justices come under intense public scrutiny almost from the moment they are nominated to the bench. Legal scholars, news commentators, and Internet blogs report and parse not only the justices...

McKinley received notice of his September confirmation several weeks after the fact, making it impossible for him to attend the fall 1837 session of circuit court in Mobile, which began on the second Monday in October. However, he did arrive on schedule in Jackson, Mississippi, to convene court on the first...

Contrary to reports, McKinley survived the stroke and eventually resumed his judicial duties. H \owever, he never regained his full health. The extent of the damage caused by the stroke is unknown, but it was severe enough to induce the justice’s son, Andrew, to relocate his own family from St. Louis to the...

Steven P. Brown aims to rehabilitate the image of John McKinley (1780–1852), who was much maligned by jurists, as well as by litigants and politicians. Chancellor James Kent in 1837 lamented to Supreme Court justice that McKinley and another recent appointee to the Supreme Court, , were “feeble lights― (p. 153). Detractors charged McKinley with everything from negligence in performance of judicial duties to poor, politically motivated reasoning. Brown succeeds in framing McKinley in a more sympathetic light through an examination of the onerous duties he performed while riding circuit. In particular, the difficulties of travel to southwestern states such …

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

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