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James Speed (March 11, 1812 – June 25, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician, and professor who was in 1864 appointed by Abraham Lincoln to be the United States Attorney General. Speed previously served in the Kentucky legislature and in local political offices.
James Speed (* 11. März 1812 im Jefferson County, Kentucky; † 25. Juni 1887 in Louisville, Kentucky) war ein US-amerikanischer Jurist und Politiker, der unter den US-Präsidenten Abraham Lincoln und Andrew Johnson als Justizminister ( Attorney General) amtierte.
25. Juni 2007 · Learn about James Speed, a successful accountant and CEO of North Carolina Mutual, the largest African American-owned life insurance company in the U.S. He shares his life story, achievements, and challenges in this interview.
Professor James D. M. Speed. My research involves a range of taxa from vascular plants and bryophytes to invertebrates, birds and mammalian herbivores. I work at a range of scales, from the individual to the biome, with short term experiments to palaeoecology, and from local scale patterns to regional and biome scale processes.
James Speed was a Kentucky lawyer and politician who opposed slavery and secession. He served as Abraham Lincoln's attorney general from 1864 to 1865 and Andrew Johnson's attorney general from 1865 to 1866.
James Speed was the Attorney General of the United States who succeeded Edward Bates in late 1864. He was the brother of Joshua Speed, who had been Mr. Lincoln’s closest friend in Springfield before Speed returned to Kentucky in 1841.
Lincoln first met James Speed while visiting the Speed family's Kentucky plantation during the summer of 1841, when Speed was an attorney in Louisville. The following year, Speed married Jane Cochran. James Speed owned enslaved people from 1844 to 1846, but afterward he did not.
