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Andrew Hamilton

(Hamilton, Andrew, approximately 1676-1741)

Andrew Hamilton (c.1676 – August 4, 1741) was a Scottish lawyer in the Thirteen Colonies who settled in Philadelphia. He was best known for his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. His involvement with the 1735 decision in New York helped to establish that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel. His eloquent defense concluded with saying that the press has "a liberty both of exposing and opposing tyrannical power by speaking and writing truth." (From Wikipedia)

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Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746

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Remarks on Zenger's Tryal, Taken Out of the Barbados Gazette's, for the Benefit of the Students in Law, and Others in North-America (attributed to Blenman in this corpus; New York: Reprinted by H. Gaine, 1770), by Jonathan Blenman (HTML at Evans TCP)

1 additional book about Andrew Hamilton in the extended shelves:

The life of Andrew Hamilton, 1676-1741. (National publishing company, 1941), by Burton Alva Konkle (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Andrew Hamilton:

Hamilton, Andrew, approximately 1676-1741, contrib.: A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger, Printer of the New-York Weekly Journal (New York: J. P. Zenger, 1736), by John Peter Zenger, also contrib. by James Alexander (HTML at Evans TCP)

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