DWIGHT, THEODORE W.
\dwˈa͡ɪt], \dwˈaɪt], \d_w_ˈaɪ_t]\
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(1822-1892), from 1858 to 1891 professor of law in Columbia College, was a member of the New York Constitutional Convention of 1867, and from 1874 to 1875 a member of the Commission of Appeals. He was one of the most famous of American teachers of law.
By John Franklin Jameson
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