. Zeitgenössische amerikanische Biographie. Land lawyerhe machte einen Fortschritt in seinem Geschäft und Ruf, die umso bemerkenswerter war wegen seiner Jugendlichkeit, und er kam bald als junger Mann von einzigartig akut Geist erkannt werden, phänomenale Erinnerung und starre Anwendung. 1833 verband er sich mit der neuorganisierten Whig-Partei, und wegen seiner natürlichen Gaben des Oratoriums bald auf die Position eines Führers vorgerückt. Drei Jahre später seine Fähigkeiten geboten ein solches Maß an Respekt, dass, während nur siebenundzwanzig Jahre alt, wurde er zum Mitglied der konstitutionellen Conven-tion, die als gewählt

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. Contemporary American biography . land lawyerhe made a progress in his business and reputation that was all the more notable because of hisyouthfulness, and he soon came to be recognized as a young man of singularly acute mind, phenomenal memory, and rigid application. In 1833 he connected himself with the newlyorganized Whig party, and by reason of his natural gifts of oratory soon advanced to theposition of a leader. Three years later his abilities commanded such a degree of respect that, while only twenty-seven years of age, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Conven-tion which assembled in. 1837, holding sessions both in Harrisburgb and in Philadelphia, andframing a series of amendments to the Constitution of 1790, which subsequently became partsof it. He was the author of that important amendment regulating the appointment and tenureof the judiciary, which through its introduction by his colleague, Mr. John Dickey, becameknown as Dickeys Amendment, and was in force until modified by the amendment of 1850.. ^)W^cc^X <*/r<^&(~-£Z4<^-— CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 107 Upon the expiration of this service he resumed his practice and pursued it until the Presidentialcampaign of 1840, when he took the stump in the interest of General Harrison and deliveredmany effective speeches. Fascinating as were the excitements and associations of a politicalcampaign, and conspicuous as his abilities had rendered him, he resolutely declined to be con-sidered in any light an aspirant for public office. His practice had reached large proportions, and he was unwilling that any considerations should deflect him from the proper managementof it. In the campaign of 1844 he was again prevailed upon to take the stump, and he thenlabored earnestly for the success of Henry Clay. In 1848, despite his known aversion topolitical office, he was made a Presidential elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket and, urgedby appeals he felt unable to resist, to canvass the west

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