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About Richard Henry Dana
Richard Henry Dana Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War in the Prize Cases. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen.
Everything about Richard Henry Dana →- Occupation
- writer, diarist, poet lawyer, lawyer
- Position held
- member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 1, 1815, 1815
- Died
- January 6, 1882, 1882