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Daniel Raymond


Gender:
Male
Born:
1786
Died:
1849
Home Town:
New Haven, CT
Later Residences:
Cincinnati, OH
Marriage(s):
Eliza Amos Raymond (unknown)
Delia Matlock Raymond (1837)
Biographical Notes:
Daniel Raymond was born in New Haven, CT in 1786. He attended the Law School and was admitted to the bar. Raymond went on to author several legal and political works and is considered the first American born important political economist.

He argued from an anti-slavery viewpoint in The Missouri Question, which was published in 1819. In 1820, he published Thoughts on Political Economy. This work established his reputation and was the first important work on this subject produced in America.

He theorized that "labor creates wealth," which may have been an improvement based on the thinking of Adam Smith of Europe. Daniel Raymond thought that the economy of England was actually the economy of the higher-ranking members of that society, and not the economy of the ...
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Education
Years at LLS:
1810

Profession / Service
Profession:
Lawyer
Admitted To Bar:
Baltimore, MD in 1814
Political Party:
Federalist

help The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation.

Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Baldwin, Roger Sherman. Notes on law taken from the lectures of the Honble. Tapping Reeve and James Gould, esquire … at the Litchfield Law School, 1812-1813. Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University.

William Key Bond List 1811-1812

Catalogue of Litchfield Law School (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Tiffany, Case and Company, 1849), 8.

Litchfield County Bar Association Records, 1810, Litchfield Historical Society, Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library.

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