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"John Kintzing Kane was a Philadelphia lawyer, City Solicitor, federal judge, Pennsylvania Attorney General and a member of the State Legislature. Although elected to the Legislature as a Federalist, he later worked as a Democrat, supporting the election of President Andrew Jackson. Kane was best known for his work as a federal judge. Kane’s most controversial decision came in 1856, when he jailed a Philadelphia Quaker for failing to produce a fugitive female slave and her two children for the court. In April 1819 he married Jane Duval Leiper with whom he had seven children."

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Biography: 
"John Kintzing Kane was a Philadelphia lawyer, City Solicitor, federal judge, Pennsylvania Attorney General and a member of the State Legislature. Although elected to the Legislature as a Federalist, he later worked as a Democrat, supporting the election of President Andrew Jackson. Kane was best known for his work as a federal judge. Kane’s most controversial decision came in 1856, when he jailed a Philadelphia Quaker for failing to produce a fugitive female slave and her two children for the court. In April 1819 he married Jane Duval Leiper with whom he had seven children."
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http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.115-ead.xml
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Kane Family Papers
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History of the Federal Judiciary
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History of the Federal Judiciary
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