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Photographer: William Fischer, Jr.
Taken: June 26, 2009
Caption: Jeremiah Sullivan Black Marker
Additional Description: Birthplace of Jeremiah Sullivan Black, 10th January, 1810
President Judge, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Judicial District, 1842-1851.
Associate Justice and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 1851-1857.
Attorney General of the United States, 1857-1860.
Secretary of State of the United States, 1860-1861.
Fearless and eloquent defender of constitutional rights, of trial by jury, and of civil and religious liberty until his death, 19th August, 1883.
“To live unmolested is not a political privilege, but a natural, absolute and indefeasible right, which human government may protect, but cannot either give or withhold.” From his address on religious liberty.
Submitted: August 11, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p73545
File Size: 0.106 Megabytes

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