MARTIN, LUTHER
\mˈɑːtɪn], \mˈɑːtɪn], \m_ˈɑː_t_ɪ_n]\
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(1744-1826), Attorney-General of Maryland, was a member of the Annapolis Convention. He was a delegate from Maryland to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1785. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but opposed the adoption of the Constitution. He was counsel for defence in the trials of Judge Chase and Aaron Burr, having in his later years become a Federalist.
By John Franklin Jameson
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