Territory of Hawaii v. Mankichi U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
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Territory of Hawaii v. Mankichi
Motion / BENJAMIN F TRACY / 1902 / 219 / 190 U.S. 197 / 23 S.Ct. 787 / 47 L.Ed. 1016 / 10-1-1902
Territory of Hawaii v. Mankichi
Transcript of Record / U.S. Supreme Court / 1902 / 219 / 190 U.S. 197 / 23 S.Ct. 787 / 47 L.Ed. 1016 / 1-10-1902
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Benjamin Franklin Tracy was an American lawyer, soldier, and secretary of the navy.
Background
Benjamin F. Tracy was born on April 26, 1830 near Owego, N. Y. , of Irish descent. His grandfather, Thomas Tracy, after living in Vermont and Massachusetts, became one of the first settlers in the southern tier of counties of New York. Benjamin was reared on a farm.
Education
Benjamin was educated at Owego Academy, where Thomas C. Platt was a fellow student.
Career
After studying in the office of N. W. Davis of Owego, Tracy was admitted to the bar in 1851. Two years later he was elected district attorney of Tioga County as a Whig.
In 1854 he organized the Republican party in the county. He was reëlected district attorney in 1856. As an assemblyman, in 1862, he urged full support of the national government in the Civil War.
In the summer of 1862 he recruited two regiments and became colonel of the 109th New York Volunteers. In the Wilderness campaign, though ordered to the rear on account of physical exhaustion, he continued to lead his regiment until the condition of his health forced him to relinquish his command. His gallantry earned for him the brevet rank of brigadier-general. During the last months of the war he was colonel of the 127th Regiment (colored troops) and commander of the military prison and recruiting camp at Elmira, N. Y.
In 1866 President Johnson appointed him district attorney for the eastern district of New York, where by a series of able prosecutions he broke up illicit distilling. He drafted the safeguarding provisions of the internal revenue act of 1868, under which federal collections were increased fourfold.
In 1873 he resumed his private practice in Brooklyn; he defended Henry Ward Beecher in the suit brought against him by Theodore Tilton and was unusually successful in cases involving the law of public officers. As a judge of the court of appeals, 1881-82, he rendered decisions on the validity of marriages contracted in other states and on the liability of elevated railroad companies for damages for the stoppage of light and air which still (1936) stand.
In 1889 he received from President Harrison the appointment as secretary of the navy, which has usually been interpreted as a sop to Thomas C. Platt, though Tracy had the indorsement of both the principal factions of the Republican party of New York. He entered at once on a program for the building of a powerful navy, and during his administration the Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Brooklyn were completed or authorized. He organized the naval militia, created the board of construction to correlate the work of various bureaus, and did much to abolish political corruption in appointments and the purchase of supplies at the navy yards. In the cabinet he was responsible for several official interpretations of international law, including the right of asylum in the Barrundia case, neutral rights and duties in the Chilean revolution, and the right of property in seals which became the basis of one of the questions put up for arbitration by the United States in the Bering Sea controversy.
After his retirement he was counsel for Venezuela in the boundary arbitration with Great Britain. He was chairman of the commission of 1896 which formulated the charter of Greater New York. At Platt's insistence, he became the regular Republican nominee for mayor in 1897, but was defeated by a large majority.
Tracy's wife and child died in a fire at their residence in Washington, DC in 1890.
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Politics
Tracy was a lawyer active in Republican Party politics during the 1850s.
A founder of the local Republican Party, he served briefly in the state legislature (1862) and fought for the Union during the Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers.
In 1889 Tracy was appointed secretary of the Navy by Pres. Benjamin Harrison. During his four years in that post, Tracy accelerated the naval expansion program begun by his predecessor, William C. Whitney, authorizing construction of new battleships and cruisers that were to figure prominently in the war with Spain and promoting reorganization and reform with the Department of the Navy.
Tracy was the Republican candidate to be the first Mayor of Greater New York City when the five boroughs consolidated in 1898. He came in third behind Democrat Robert A. Van Wyck and Seth Low of the Citizens' Union, winning 101, 863 of the 523, 560 votes cast in the election of 1897.
Personality
In person he was unusually handsome. He had keen powers of analysis, good judgment, and great executive ability.
Interests
His principal avocation was the breeding of trotting horses on his Tioga County farm.
Connections
In 1851 he married Delinda E. Catlin; she and their younger daughter lost their lives in the burning of their Washington home in February 1890; a son and a daughter survived him.