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Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was a lawyer, politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts.
9 mag 2024 · Robert Treat Paine was an American politician, jurist, member of the Continental Congress (1774–78), and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Paine graduated from Harvard in 1749 and, after trying teaching and the ministry, turned to the study of law and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
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20 lug 2016 · Robert Treat Paine changed the field's course with a simple experiment. He removed ochre starfish ( Pisaster ochraceus) from a seashore in Washington state, revealing that a single...
- Jane Lubchenco
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- 2016
28 dic 2023 · Robert Treat Paine was a politician from Massachusetts who rose to prominence during the American Revolution and became a Founding Father. He led the prosecution in the case against Captain Thomas Preston and his men, who were tried for their actions at the Boston Massacre .
- Randal Rust
13 set 2016 · Robert T. Paine, who passed away on 13 June 2016, is among the most influential people in the history of ecology. Paine was an experimentalist, a theoretician, a practitioner, and proponent of the “ecology of place,” and a deep believer in the importance of natural history to ecological understanding. His scientific legacy grew ...
- James A. Estes, Paul K. Dayton, Peter Kareiva, Simon A. Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Bruce A. Menge, Steph...
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18 feb 2020 · Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but he was so much more than that. He was Massachusetts’ first Attorney General, the lawyer who opposed John Adams on the Boston Massacre case, and a husband and father. His story is a very interesting one.
Paine served on committees which formed the rules of debate, and later served as chairman of the committee charged with acquiring gunpowder for the Continental Army. He also signed the final appeal to the king, known as the Olive Branch Petition, in 1775.
