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Two The Education of Samuel Betts: Developing a National Maritime Law
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Published:March 2013
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In 1827, U.S. President John Quincy Adams appointed Samuel Rossiter Betts, a former artillery officer, as a federal district judge for the Southern District of New York. Betts took charge of the growing body of maritime cases stemming from New York harbor’s flourishing sea trade, developing a reputation as an expert in American maritime law. Along with fellow federal jurists Peleg Sprague and Joseph Story, he would forge the young nation’s maritime law. This chapter chronicles the education and intellectual development of Betts, Sprague, and Story as well as their legacy in the area of maritime law. It also examines the developments within maritime law, and how it was formed by Congress and jurists to regulate and bring order to maritime trade. The chapter furthermore looks at how the three jurists sought to use the waters to create a powerful judiciary and a federal government with authority over seafarers in order to help the structural and economic development of a young United States.
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