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American lawyer
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Male
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1754
Death:
25 July 1799
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Biography
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George Nicholas (c. 1754 – July 25, 1799) was the first professor of law at Transylvania University in Kentucky. He was also briefly attorney general of Kentucky, and had been several times a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the son of Robert C. Nicholas, Sr.; his brothers included Wilson Cary Nicholas.He was the father of Robert C. Nicholas.He was a friend and correspondent of James Madison; he was also extremely obese, and Madison laughed until he cried at a caricatureof Nicholas, during the Virginia convention to ratify the United States Constitution, as a plum pudding with legs.
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"If the federal government try to reach any supplementally condition to impose upon us, we would be in Virginia exonerated."