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Egbert Benson (1746-1833)
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1824)
Oil on wood panel, 1805 or later
New-York Historical Society
Gift of Robert Benson, Jr.
Judge, state attorney general, and congressman, Benson argued against his friend Hamilton in Rutgers v. Waddington, a 1784 case in which Hamilton pioneered the doctrine of judicial review.
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