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James Speed (March 11, 1812 – June 25, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician, and professor who was in 1864 appointed by Abraham Lincoln to be the United States Attorney General. Speed previously served in the Kentucky legislature and in local political offices.
Jun 25, 2007 · Biography. Digital Archive. Corporate executive James H. Speed, Jr. was born on June 13, 1953 in Oxford, North Carolina. Speed’s father was a laborer in the town of Oxford, and his mother was a homemaker. In 1956, Speed’s mother suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed on the left side of her body.
Oct 24, 2022 · On December 2, 1864, President Lincoln appointed him Attorney General of the United States. He resigned in July 1866 and resumed the practice of his profession. Speed was a delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists' Convention" in 1866 and served as president of the Convention.
James Speed was the Attorney General of the United States who succeeded Edward Bates in late 1864. He was the brother of Joshua Speed, who had been Mr. Lincoln’s closest friend in Springfield before Speed returned to Kentucky in 1841.
James Speed was born in 1812 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He attended St. Joseph’s College and Transylvania University, studied the law, and was admitted to the state bar in 1833. Speed practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, until he was elected to the state legislature in 1847.
Feb 25, 2022 · But at Valencia High School in Shreveport, the 6-foot-6 James Speed was the show. In 1967-68, he averaged 31.2 points and 19 rebounds per game for the Vikings. “In terms of what he can do,” coach John Crockett said during Speed’s senior year, “he’s the best in the area.”
SPEED, JAMES. James Speed served as U.S. attorney general under President abraham lincoln. Speed was born March 11, 1812, in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He was the son of Kentucky pioneers John Speed and Lucy Gilmer Fry Speed and counted among his ancestors a Revolutionary War hero (Captain James Speed) and an English historian (John Speed).
James Speed served as U.S. attorney general under President ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Speed was born March 11, 1812, in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He was the son of Kentucky pioneers John Speed and Lucy Gilmer Fry Speed and counted among his ancestors a Revolutionary War hero (Captain James Speed) and an English historian (John Speed).
Attorney general of the United States of America from December 1864 to July 16, 1866. James J. Holmberg, "James Speed" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 842.
James Speed. (1812-1887) In late 1864, Abraham Lincoln appointed James Speed of Louisville to the position of U.S. attorney general. In choosing Speed, a leading Kentucky Republican and antislavery politician, Lincoln fulfilled his hope of bringing a like-minded Kentuckian into the cabinet.
