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In adding biographical sketches of the members of the bar it ought, in justice, to be said that no attempt has been made to grade or classify attorneys now living. It would be presumptuous in the extreme for the editors to attempt to arrange their brother lawyers in any order of merit, and, whatever may be the failings of this work, we have not fallen into such an error. So far as possible all available material con cerning each name has been used and, as some persons have responded more freely than others, there has resulted a difference in the length of the notices. It cannot be said that any are too long, but it is true that many are too short.
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Theodore Dwight was an American lawyer and author. He was also a distinguished lawyer, a leader of the Federalist Party, and a member of Congress in 1806–1807.
Background
Theodore Dwight was born on December 15, 1764, in Northampton, Massachusetts, seventh of the thirteen children of Timothy and Mary (Edwards) Dwight, whose first-born was Timothy Dwight. His father was a well-to-do merchant, landowner, and local officeholder; his mother, a daughter of Jonathan Edwards, was a woman of remarkable strength of character. Timothy Dwight died when Theodore was in his thirteenth year, and the boy was brought up by his mother on the farm in Northampton. When he was about twenty, an injury obliged him to give up farming.
Education
Dwight studied law with his uncle, Pierpont Edwards, of New Haven, was admitted to the bar in 17871 and began practise at Haddam, Connecticut.
Career
Dwight was admitted to the bar in 1787, and began practice at Haddam, Connecticut In 1791 he moved to Hartford and practiced there until 1815. He is reported to have been at one time in the early period of his practice on the point of forming a partnership with his cousin, Aaron Burr, the agreement falling through because of a political dispute.
Dwight soon acquired a reputation as a competent lawyer, an able writer, and an eloquent speaker. A number of his speeches on various occasions during his years at Hartford have survived. One of the most interesting was delivered May 8, 1794, before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, and is noteworthy as an early arraignment of slavery; it contains passages which resemble utterances of Garrison and Phillips.
It was during this same period that he became identified with the group of writers known as the "Connecticut Wits. " He was himself the author of much verse, but his poetical effusions are of antiquarian rather than literary interest. Some of the New Year addresses, however, contributed to the Connecticut Courant and Connecticut Mirror are clever imitations of Hudibras and have been frequently quoted by historians.
His journalistic writings are characterized by the scurrility and personal abuse which were so common in American newspapers of the period. In 1806-07 he served for a single session in Congress, in place of John Cotton Smith, resigned; and from 1809 to 1815 was a member of the Council.
He was less prominent as an office-holder, however, than as a party worker, pamphleteer, and editor. He was well known throughout New England, his writings were widely quoted, and he corresponded with leading Federalists in other states. In Connecticut he fought all the reforms proposed by the Republicans prior to the War of 1812, and was earnestly opposed to the latter contest. At the same time he had numerous business interests, maintained a law practice, and was active in various local societies. In 1814 he acted as secretary of the Hartford Convention and in 1833 published the journal of that ill-starred gathering together with a review of the steps leading up to the War of 1812. It is an able defense of the Federalist party, although somewhat too polemical for good historical writing, as is also The Character of Thomas Jefferson as Exhibited in his own Writings (1839).
In 1815 he moved to Albany, New York, where he founded the Daily Advertiser; but he remained there less than two years. In 1817 he founded the New York Daily Advertiser, and continued in New York City in active management of the paper until 1836, when he returned to Hartford to spend his declining years. His death took place in New York, however, as had that of his wife less than three months earlier.
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Politics
Dwight's political addresses show that he shared with most of his contemporaries the enthusiasm for the French Revolution which later turned to fear and aversion. He was ultra-Federalist in politics, and his views of the opposing party and its doctrines are to be found in his published addresses and in frequent editorial contributions, essays, and verses in the Connecticut Courant and Connecticut Mirror.
Membership
Theodore Dwight was a member of the literary society at Yale College, known as the "Connecticut Wits. "
Connections
He was married on September 9, 1792, to Abigail, daughter of Richard and Mary (Wright) Alsop of Middletown, Connecticut, and sister of Richard Alsop, the poet.