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James Kent
James Kent (July 31, 1763–December 12, 1847), American jurist and legal scholar, was born at New York. He graduated from Yale College in 1781, having helped establish the Phi Beta Kappa society there in 1780, and began to practise law at Poughkeepsie, New York in 1785 as an attorney, and in 1787 at the bar.
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