| 词条 | James Speed |
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|name = James Speed |image = James Speed.jpg |office = 27th United States Attorney General |president = Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson |term_start = December 2, 1864 |term_end = July 22, 1866 |predecessor = Edward Bates |successor = Henry Stanbery |birth_date = {{birth date|1812|3|11}} |birth_place = Jefferson County, Kentucky, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1887|6|25|1812|3|11}} |death_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |party = Whig {{small|(Before 1860)}} Republican {{small|(1860–1887)}} |spouse = Jane Cochran |education = St. Joseph's College, Kentucky {{small|(BA)}} Transylvania University {{small|(LLB)}} |allegiance = {{flag|United States}} |branch = {{army|United States}} |unit = Louisville Home Guard |battles = American Civil War }} James Speed (March 11, 1812 – June 25, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician and professor. In 1864, he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln to be the United States Attorney General. He previously served in the Kentucky Legislature, and in local political office. Early lifeSpeed was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, to Judge John Speed (Kentucky) and his second wife, Lucy Gilmer Fry. He was a distant descendant of the English cartographer John Speed and brother of Joshua Fry Speed. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Kentucky, studied law at Transylvania University and was admitted to the bar at Louisville, in 1833.[1] CareerIn 1841 Speed met fellow lawyer and future President Abraham Lincoln while Lincoln was staying at Farmington, the Speed family home in Louisville, while visiting James's brother, Joshua (whom he had befriended while the two lived in Springfield, Illinois). During Lincoln's stay, the two lawyers met almost daily to discuss legal matters of the day. James Speed lent Lincoln books from his law library.[2] Unlike his brother Joshua, James Speed opposed slavery and was active in the Whig Party.[3] In 1847 Speed was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives. At this early point in his career, Speed was already agitating for the emancipation of American slaves. However, Kentucky voters did not share views, and he failed to win election as delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention. From 1851 to 1854, Speed served on the Louisville Board of Aldermen, including two years as its president. He taught as a professor in the Law Department of the University of Louisville from 1856 to 1858, and would later return to teach from 1872 to 1879. He was one of the founders of the law firm of Stites & Harbison.{{Citation needed|date = February 2013}} Civil War eraAs the coming Civil War was increasing in likelihood, Speed worked to keep Kentucky in the Union. He also became a commander of the Louisville Home Guard. Elected to the Kentucky Senate in 1861, Speed became the leader of the pro-Union forces. In 1862 he controversially introduced a bill to "confiscate the property" of those supporting the Confederacy in Kentucky.{{Citation needed|date = February 2013}} In December 1864, United States President Abraham Lincoln appointed Speed Attorney General of the United States. After Lincoln's assassination, Speed became increasingly associated with the Radical Republicans and advocated allowing male African Americans to vote. Disillusioned with the increasingly conservative policies of former Democratic President Andrew Johnson, Speed resigned from the Cabinet in July 1866 and resumed the practice of law.[4] Postwar careerSpeed was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia in 1866 and fellow delegates chose him as the convention's president. However, Speed's racial views were unpopular in Kentucky. Speed ran to become U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1867, as President Johnson's ally Senator James Guthrie (a Unionist and former slaveholder) retired citing health issues. However, voters instead elected Democrat Thomas C. McCreery. In 1868, Speed ran for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States but the convention instead chose Schuyler Colfax. Speed also ran for U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 5th District in 1870, to succeed Democrat Asa Grover, who had been accused of disloyalty but was exonerated and finished his only term. However, voters instead selected Democrat Boyd Winchester to fill the seat. Speed also was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky in 1872. He was elected a 3rd class companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States in recognition of his service to the Union during the Civil War. Death and legacySpeed died in Louisville in 1887, and is interred at Cave Hill Cemetery in that city. His family's estate, Farmington, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and while the farm is substantially reduced in size, the house has been restored and has become a local event venue, and the focus of living history events.[5] In popular culture
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References1. ^{{cite book |editor1-last=Phelps |editor1-first=Shirelle |editor2-last=Lehman |editor2-first=Jeffrey |article=Speed, James|title=West's Encyclopedia of American Law |date=2005 |publisher=Gale |location=Detroit, MI |pages=272-273 |edition=Volume 9, 2nd}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Donald |first=David Herbert | title=Lincoln | location=New York | publisher=Touchstone| year=1995 | page=88 |isbn=0684808463}} 3. ^audiobook by James W. Loewen 4. ^{{cite journal |last1=Cole |first1=Jennifer |title="For the Sake of the Songs of the Men Made Free": James Speed and the Emancipationists' Dilemma in Nineteenth-century Kentucky |journal=Ohio Valley History |date=2004 |volume=4 |pages=27-48}} 5. ^http://www.historicfarmington.org Further reading
| first=Bryan S. | last=Bush | year=2008 | title=Lincoln and the Speeds: The Untold Story of a Devoted and Enduring Friendship | publisher=Acclaim Press | location=Morley, Missouri | isbn=978-0-9798802-6-1}}
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