Talk:John Pickering (judge)

Studied Law at Harvard College?
The article says Pickering studied law at Harvard College and then was immediately admitted to the Bar upon graduation. This is misleading in that Harvard Law School, the first law school in the US, was not founded until 1817. Prior to that time the method of training for law was through apprenticeship with attorneys and firms for a number of years. Thus I doubt if Pickering's studies at Harvard were the principal basis for his admission to the law. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.19.140.32 (talk) 06:14, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

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John Pickering was unfairly impeached! He made enemies of men in high places and knew too much. Overall he was a man of good moral fiber! The "drink" got the better of him on occassions! Speaking the passionate truth; imbibed in spirits, is not always popular[definitly not a good idea] as he found out!

Is the second sentence worded correctly? "He was the first federal official to have been removed from office upon conviction upon impeachment." The "upon conviction upon impeachment" looks funny, but maybe that's just the proper terminology.Rukenstien (talk) 22:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Comment removed from article
User:98.240.171.24 commented in the article: "This article needs a way to prevent confusion with linguist John Pickering whose orthographical system was used to render American Indian languages in the early nineteenth century: http://books.google.com/books?id=LLJiAAAAMAAJ  http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=35801". We have a means of dealing with exactly such a situation. Write the article on the other John Pickering at John Pickering (linguist), and then put an "otheruse" tag at the top of this page, so people looking for the linguist will be directed to that article. bd2412 T 06:55, 23 February 2009 (UTC)