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The Dred Scott vs. Sanford case was a slave incident that occurred in America. In 1834 Dred Scott, a negro slave of Missouri, was taken by his master, who was a surgeon in the regular army, first into Illinois and then into Minnesota, a region from which slavery was expressly excluded by the celebrated Missouri Compromise of 1820. While in Minnesota Dred Scott was married with his master's consent, but on being brought back to Missouri in 1838, he and his wife and children were sold to another master.
Dred Scott brought action for trespass in a St Louis court, and a decision was made in his favour on the ground that, under the provisions of the Missouri Compromise, the negro was free. The Supreme Court of Missouri reversed this decision, and the case came before the Federal Circuit Court in 1854. The defendant slave-holder pleaded that Dred Scott was not a citizen entitled to sue and be sued in the US Courts. The court held the contrary, but the jury's verdict decided the plaintiff still a slave. The case came before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857. Here the judgment of the Circuit Court was reversed, and the case dismissed on the ground that no negro, bond or free, could plead in the US Courts as a citizen. The court then, though denying its jurisdiction over the dispute, discussed the constitutional points. Dred Scott's status in Illinois was declared determined by his Missouri domicile. As regarded the Minnesota Territory the court declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and void, it being held that States alone could prohibit slavery from their boundaries. Chief Justice Taney read the opinion of a majority of the court, all slave-holders, declaring 'negroes so inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect'. Justices Curtis and McLean dissented. Dred Scott was afterwards freed by his master. The decision and case roused great excitement in the North.
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The Minnesota Register was the first newspaper of any importance issued in Minnesota. It was printed at Cincinnati and dated St Paul. McLean and Owens edited and published this journal. In August, 1849, it was consolidated with the Chronicle and was then called the Chronicle and Register. Its publication was continued until 1851.
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Adolph O Eberhart was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1909 until 1915.
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Albert H Quie was an American politician. He was an Independent-Republican governor of Minnesota from 1979 until 1983.
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Alexander Ramsey was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1860 until 1863.
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Alexander Winchell was an American geologist. He was born in 1824 and died in 1891. He was professor of geology, zoology and botany at the University of Michigan from 1855 to 1873. He made valuable geological investigations in Michigan and Minnesota.
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Andrew R McGill was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1887 until 1889.
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Bob Dylan (real name Robert Allen Zimmerman) is an American musician. He was born in 1941 at Duluth, Minnesota.
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Cushman K Davis was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1874 until 1876.
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C Elmer Anderson was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1951 until 1955.
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