Andrew Hamilton
The Philadelphia Bar Foundation dropped Andrew Hamilton’s name from its major annual fundraiser for legal groups, according to philly.com.
Who’s he?
“He was best known for his legal victory on behalf of the printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. This 1735 decision in New York helped to establish that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel,” according to Wikipedia.
Philly.com reports:
The learned man who made the winning argument in that 1735 trial was Andrew Hamilton, a wealthy Philadelphian who was said to be the greatest lawyer of his day.
