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Robert Treat Paine

1731 - 1814

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Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was a lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence as a representative of the colonial era Province of Massachusetts Bay, one of the original Thirteen Colonies. He served as the state's first attorney general and as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Treat Paine is the 74th most popular lawyer (up from 101st in 2019), the 6,105th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,770th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Robert Treat Paine ranks 74 out of 136. Before him are Hersch Lauterpacht, Valtazar Bogišić, René David, William Rehnquist, Hisashi Owada, and Leo Frank. After him are Koen Lenaerts, Louis Brandeis, Michael Cohen, Lawrence Lessig, John Selden, and Dmitry Bogrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Robert Treat Paine ranks 19. Before him are Christian Cannabich, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, William Cowper, Dirk van der Aa, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, and Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are Victor Louis, Gabriela Silang, Catharine Macaulay, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, and Benjamin Banneker. Among people deceased in 1814, Robert Treat Paine ranks 29. Before him are Johan Tobias Sergel, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Évariste de Parny, Charles Burney, Jean Reynier, and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are August Wilhelm Iffland, Andrey Voronikhin, Joseph Bramah, Nicholas Gilman, Mercy Otis Warren, and Benjamin Williams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Treat Paine ranks 6,105 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Benny (1894), Sam Witwer (1977), Frederic Rzewski (1938), Troy Donahue (1936), Hamilton Luske (1903), and Emma Roberts (1991). After him are Enoch L. Johnson (1883), Clyde Tolson (1900), John Warnock (1940), Mark St. John (1956), Glenn Danzig (1955), and Johnny Thunders (1952).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Robert Treat Paine ranks 19. Before him are James B. Donovan (1916), Robert Bilott (1965), William J. Brennan Jr. (1906), Alan Dershowitz (1938), William Rehnquist (1924), and Leo Frank (1884). After him are Louis Brandeis (1856), Michael Cohen (1966), Lawrence Lessig (1961), Ken Starr (1946), Wendell Willkie (1892), and Clarence Darrow (1857).

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