Judge, Politician (29-Apr-1745 — 26-Nov-1807)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

William Garrott Brown. The Life of Oliver Ellsworth. New York: Macmillan. 1905. 369pp.

William R. Casto. Oliver Ellsworth and the Creation of the Federal Republic. Second Circuit Committee on History and Commemorative Events. 1997. 151pp.

Matthew P. Harrington. Jay and Ellsworth, the First Courts: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. ABC-CLIO. 2008. 309pp.

Ronald John Lettieri. Connecticut's Young Man of the Revolution, Oliver Ellsworth: Oliver Ellsworth. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut. 1978. 106pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Wikipedia [link]

3. Congressional Biography [link]

4. Webster's American Biographies (p.319)

5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (pp.346-47)

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