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About David Daggett
David Daggett was a U.S. senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and a founder of the Yale Law School. He helped block plans for the first college for African Americans in the United States and presided over the conviction of a woman running a boarding school for African Americans in violation of Connecticut's recently passed Black Law. He judged African Americans not to be citizens and supported their colonization to Africa.
Everything about David Daggett →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, university teacher, judge
- Position held
- Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 31, 1764
- Died
- April 12, 1851, April 21, 1851