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About James Speed
James Speed 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.
Everything about James Speed →- Occupation
- lawyer, politician, university teacher
- Position held
- United States Attorney General, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, member of the State Senate of Kentucky
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 11, 1812
- Died
- June 25, 1887