Background
John Wickham was born at Southold, Long Island, N. Y. , the son of John and Hannah (Fanning) Wickham and a descendant of Thomas Wickham who was made a freeman of Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1658.
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John Wickham was born at Southold, Long Island, N. Y. , the son of John and Hannah (Fanning) Wickham and a descendant of Thomas Wickham who was made a freeman of Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1658.
With a view to entering the army, John attended the military school at Arras, France, but preferring the law he went to Williamsburg, Va. , during the Revolution to live with an uncle, the Rev. William Fanning, an Episcopal clergyman, and there to prepare himself for the legal profession.
Later he practised in Williamsburg until he removed to Richmond in 1790. Socially prominent, he lived on Clay Street near the home of his friend John Marshall. The leader of a bar unsurpassed in America, Wickham appeared in many important cases, three of which are unusually noteworthy. In 1793, in the case of Ware vs. Hylton, he was of counsel for a British creditor who claimed protection of the Treaty of 1783, which provided that the collection of bona fide debts should not be impeded. John Marshall was one of the debtor's attorneys and contended that since Virginia, an independent state, had suspended these debts during the Revolution, they had ceased to be lawful obligations and were not within the terms of the Treaty, an anomalous position in view of his later great decisions. Wickham took the sounder view that by the Constitution treaties were a part of the law of the land and all state legislation inconsistent therewith was invalid. Denied by the lower court, Wickham's contention was sustained on appeal by the Supreme Court. In 1809 Wickham represented the plaintiff in the case of Hunter vs. Fairfax's Devisee, involving the Fairfax grant, which, although finally decided against him under the title Martin vs. Hunter's Lessee established the doctrine that the Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over the decisions of the state courts. The most spectacular case, however, in which Wickham participated was the trial of Aaron Burr. Associated with him were Luther Martin, Edmund Randolph, and others, while William Wirt assisted the prosecution. An incident occurred which caused popular clamor. Wickham gave a dinner which his friend John Marshall attended - a not unusual event; but Burr also was present! The press denounced the spectacle of the accused in a treason trial dining at the home of one of his chief counsel with the judge who was to try the case. Aware of the obvious implications of such an indiscretion, Marshall probably did not know that Burr had been invited. Early in the trial Wickham pointed out that the Constitution specifically defined treason and for conviction required two witnesses to the overt act. Since the gathering at Blennerhassett's island was alleged in the indictment as the act of treason and since Burr was hundreds of miles away at the time, Wickham contended that Burr had committed no overt act, the constitutional provisions abrogating the common law rule of constructive presence and requiring for conviction physical presence at the commission of the act charged. The Chief Justice adopted Wickham's view and so instructed the jury.
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His mind was alert yet profound; his wit vivid and brilliant; his style classically pure; and his elocution unusually fine. Extravagantly esteemed by John Randolph of Roanoke, he was even more extravagantly praised by Tom Moore, as the only gentleman the poet found in America.
On December 24, 1791, he married his cousin, Mary Smith Fanning, who died Feburary 1, 1799. As his second wife he married Elizabeth Selden McClurg, the only daughter of Dr. James McClurg. Wickham had two sons by his first wife, and numerous children by the second.