John B. Minor
John Barbee Minor (1813β1895) was an American academic. He taught law at the University of Virginia for fifty years. His students achieved eminence in professional or public lives. Some referred to his teaching career as not only the longest but the ablest known to Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, and one declared that βhe has exerted, and still indirectly exerts, a wider influence for good upon society in the United States than any man who has lived in this generation.β
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