Bank Check 1843 Philadelphia Bank Horace Binney Signed

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Philadelphia PA , 1843. Vintage Bank Check Philadelphia Bank .$50.00 to Horace Binney & Autographed on the back in Pen ,A 6 out of 10 Signature for Boldness ...Vf+/Xf Condition .Black text Leaf Paper . An Awesome Document! approx 2.5" x 6" Horace Binney (January 4, 1780 - August 12, 1875) was an American lawyer . [ edit ] Biography Binney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Harvard College in 1797; he then studied law in the office of Jared Ingersoll (1749 - 1822), who had been a member of the Constitutional convention of 1787, and who from 1791 to 1800 and again from 1811 to 1816 was the attorney-general of Pennsylvania. Binney was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1800 and practised t with great success for half a century, and was recognized as one of the leaders of the bar in the United States. He served in the Pennsylvania legislature between 1806-1807, and was a Whig member of the National House of Representatives between 1833-1835 - he defended the United States Bank , and opposing the policy of President Andrew Jackson . His most famous case, in which he was unsuccessfully opposed by Daniel Webster , was the case of Vidal v. Girard's Executors , which involved the disposition of the fortune of Stephen Girard . Binney's argument in this case greatly influenced the interpretation of the law of charities. read more

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