| 词条 | Richard Dana (lawyer) |
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| name = Richard Dana | image = Richard Dana.jpg | caption = Portrait of Richard Dana by John Singleton Copley (ca. 1770) | office = Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for Marblehead | term = 1738-1738 | birth_date = June 26, 1700 | birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age|1772|05|17|1700|06|26}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | alma_mater = Harvard College | parents = Daniel Dana Naomi Croswell | spouse = {{marriage|Lydia Trowbridge |May 31, 1737|1772|reason=his death}} | children = 7, including Francis | relations = Dana }}Richard Dana (June 26, 1700 – May 17, 1772) was a prominent lawyer and politician in colonial Massachusetts, and member of the Dana family.[1] Early lifeDana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 26, 1700. He was the son of Daniel Dana (1664–1749) and Naomi (née Croswell) Dana (1670–1751).[2] The Dana family was prominent in colonial Massachusetts and their family’s coat of arms was three stags separated by a chevron, with a fox at the crest.[1] He graduated from Harvard College in 1718 and then studied law and passed the bar.[3] CareerDana became a prominent lawyer[4] and during the early stages of the Revolution, the city of Boston depended on his legal advice, serving as a member of the committee that investigated the Boston Massacre in 1770.[1] He was a founding member the Sons of Liberty, and led Massachusetts opposition to the Stamp Act.[5] He served one term in the Massachusetts Assembly,[6] representing Marblehead in 1738.[4] Personal lifeOn May 31, 1737, Dana was married to Lydia Trowbridge (1710–1776), the sister of Edmund Trowbridge, an associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature. Together, they were the parents of:[2]
Dana died on May 17, 1772. He is buried in Harvard Square, in "the Old Burying Ground" between the First Parish Church and Christ Church.[2] DescendantsThrough his son Francis, he was the grandfather of Richard Henry Dana Sr., a lawyer, poet and literary critic,[8] and the great-grandfather of Edmund Trowbridge Dana (1818–1869) and Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882), also a noted lawyer and author who served as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts and wrote the classic Two Years Before the Mast.[2] Sources1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=John Singleton Copley {{!}} Richard Dana {{!}} The Met|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10535|website=metmuseum.org|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=13 November 2017}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|title=Munsey's Magazine Volume XVI {{!}} October 1896, To March 1897|date=1897|publisher=Frank A. Munsey & Company|location=New York|pages=140-152|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jiwAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140|accessdate=13 November 2017|language=en}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Warren|first1=Charles|title=History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America|date=1908|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.|isbn=9781584770060|page=52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GbD_J57LbQC&pg=PA52|accessdate=13 November 2017|language=en}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Adams|first1=John|title=Legal Papers of John Adams|date=1965|publisher=Harvard University Press|pages=99-100|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlibMcgeiJMC&pg=PR99&lpg=PR99|accessdate=13 November 2017|language=en}} 5. ^1 Mays, Terry M. Historical Dictionary Of Revolutionary America (Scarecrow Press, 2005). Page 77. 6. ^{{cite web|title=Dana Family Papers, 1654-1950|url=https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0233|website=www.masshist.org|publisher=Massachusetts Historical Society|accessdate=13 November 2017|language=en}} 7. ^Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 8. ^{{cite book|last1=Eliot|first1=Samuel Atkins|title=Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State|date=1906|publisher=Massachusetts biographical society|page=1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Pi6cDvkWPcC&pg=RA1-PA1850&lpg=RA1-PA1850|accessdate=13 November 2017|language=en}} External links
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