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James Kent
James Kent (July 31, 1763 in Fredericksburg,〔Fredericksburg comprised at that time the present-day towns of Patterson, Kent, Carmel, Southeast and Pawling〕 then Dutchess, now Putnam County, New York – December 12, 1847 in New York City) was an American jurist and legal scholar.〔Langbein, John H., (Chancellor Kent and the History of Legal Literature ) (1993). Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 549.〕 He was the author of ''Commentaries on American Law''.
==Life==
He was the son of Moss Kent, a lawyer from Dutchess County, New York and the first Surrogate of Rensselaer County, New York.〔() Court History〕
He graduated from Yale College in 1781, having helped establish the Phi Beta Kappa Society there in 1780, and began to practice law at Poughkeepsie, New York in 1785 as an attorney, and in 1787 at the bar. In 1791 and 1792-93 Kent was a member from Dutchess County of the New York State Assembly. In 1793, he removed to New York City, where he was appointed a master in chancery for the city.
He was the first professor of law in Columbia College in 1793-98 and again served in the Assembly in 1796-97. In 1797, he was appointed Recorder of New York City and in 1798, a justice of the New York Supreme Court, in 1804 Chief Justice, and in 1814 Chancellor of New York. Kent was also elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814.〔(American Antiquarian Society Members Directory )〕 In 1821 he was a member of the New York State Constitutional Convention where he unsuccessfully opposed the raising of the property qualification for African American voters. Two years later, Chancellor Kent reached the constitutional age limit and retired from his office, but was re-elected to his former chair. He lived in retirement in Summit, New Jersey between 1837 and 1847 in a simple four-roomed cottage (the original cottage today has been incorporated into a large mansion at 50 Kent Place Boulevard in Summit NJ) which he referred to as 'my Summit Lodge', a name that has been offered as the derivation for the city's name.〔Cheslow, Jerry. ("A Transit Hub With a Thriving Downtown" ), ''The New York Times'', July 13, 1997. Accessed January 28, 2008. "THE name Summit may have been coined by James Kent, retired Chancellor of the Court of Chancery, New York State's highest judicial office, who bought a house on the hill in 1837 and named it Summit Lodge."〕
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