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{{Officeholder
|name=Samuel Nelson
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Protestant]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[John Tyler]]
|terms=February 14, 1845 – November 28, 1872
|preceded=[[Smith Thompson]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Ward Hunt]]
}}
}}
'''Samuel Nelson''' (November 10, 1792 – December 13, 1873) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was appointed to the Court by President [[John Tyler]] after the [[Senate]] had rejected Tyler's two prior nominees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/samuel_nelson|title=Samuel Nelson|format=HTML|language=English|work=Oyez|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law}}</ref> Nelson wrote the original opinion in the [[Dred Scott v. Sanford]] - where he avoided the question of slavery, but pressure from Southern justices scrapped his opinion and replaced it with Chief Justice [[Roger Taney]]'s more inflammatory one.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/8793/Nelson-Samuel.html|title=Samuel Nelson|format=HTML|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|taney=y|chase=y}}
|name=Samuel Nelson
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Protestant]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[John Tyler]]
|terms=February 14, 1845 – November 28, 1872
|preceded=[[Smith Thompson]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Ward Hunt]]
}}
}}
'''Samuel Nelson''' (November 10, 1792 – December 13, 1873) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was appointed to the Court by President [[John Tyler]] after the [[Senate]] had rejected Tyler's two prior nominees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/samuel_nelson|title=Samuel Nelson|format=HTML|language=English|work=Oyez|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law}}</ref> Nelson wrote the original opinion in the [[Dred Scott v. Sanford]] - where he avoided the question of slavery, but pressure from Southern justices scrapped his opinion and replaced it with Chief Justice [[Roger Taney]]'s more inflammatory one.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/8793/Nelson-Samuel.html|title=Samuel Nelson|format=HTML|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|taney=y|chase=y}}