Henry Wheaton

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diplomat human jurist legal writer scholar of international law

Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	diplomat → human → jurist → legal writer → scholar of international law →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1785-11-27 →
dateOfDeath	1848-03-11 →
describedBySource	Encyclopaedia Britannica → Library of Congress authorities →
educatedAt	Brown University →
employer	State of Rhode Island → Supreme Court of the United States → United States Department of State →
era	19th century →
familyName	Wheaton →
fieldOfWork	constitutional law → international law → maritime law →
fullName	Henry Wheaton →
genre	legal treatise →
givenName	Henry →
influenced	European international legal scholarship → development of American international law →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences →
movement	classical international law →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableFor	systematizing principles of international law in the 19th century →
notableWork	Elements of International Law → History of the Law of Nations → Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States →
occupation	author → diplomat → judge → jurist → lawyer → legal scholar →
placeOfBirth	Providence, Rhode Island →
placeOfDeath	Dorchester, Massachusetts →
positionHeld	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island → Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States → United States Chargé d’Affaires in Denmark → United States Minister to Prussia →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Catherine Livingston →
workLocation	Berlin → Copenhagen → Washington, D.C. →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Wheaton → Wheaton Reports →	namedAfter
Wheaton →	compiledBy
Wheaton Reports →	editor
Henry Wheaton →	fullName