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38-644: Santa Rita National Forest was established as the Santa Rita Forest Reserve by the United States General Land Office in Arizona on April 11, 1902 with 337,300 acres (1,365 km). After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 it was combined with Santa Catalina National Forest and Dragoon National Forest to create Coronado National Forest and

76-671: A defined power of the federal government." McLean's sense of nationalism could be seen again in his concurring opinion on the Passenger Cases (1849). The most senior member of the Court at the time, McLean began his opinion by weighing in on the debate concerning the nature of the Commerce Clause . McLean asserted the Commerce Clause "is exclusively vested in Congress." Under this view, if

114-514: A focus on egalitarianism. However, while living in Ohio, Mclean was recorded in the 1820 United States census as owning at least one slave . His brother William was also a successful Ohio politician. McLean studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1807. That same year, he founded The Western Star , a weekly newspaper at Lebanon , the Warren County seat. In 1810, Mclean transferred ownership of

152-581: A major expansion of the United States Postal Service . In 1829, President Andrew Jackson appointed McLean as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. On the court, McLean became known as an opponent of slavery, and he was frequently mentioned as a presidential candidate for various parties. McLean received the support of delegates at the 1848 Whig National Convention , the 1856 Republican National Convention , and

190-571: A massive expansion of the Post Office into the new western states and territories and the elevation of the Postmaster Generalship to a cabinet office. During Adams' administration McLean supported Vice President John C. Calhoun , who was estranged from the president, but Adams declined to remove McLean despite Secretary of State Henry Clay asking for his removal. While Postmaster General, McLean supported Andrew Jackson , who offered him

228-568: A slave who resided in Kentucky could be sent to work in Ohio without gaining his freedom. Lunsford, as a slave who was regularly sent to work in Ohio, sued on the grounds that, by having him travel to work in Cincinnati for periods of over a week, Thomas Carneal forfeited his property rights in Lunsford. The Court ruled, with McLean issuing its opinion, that since Carneal sold Lunsford to a Mr. James Riddle,

266-525: A state abolish slavery? McLean, seeking to limit national regulation in regards to slavery, paradoxically abandoned his aforementioned position as an economic nationalist when he claimed, "The power over slavery belongs to the States respectively. It is local in its character and in its effects." This was of course done in accordance with the Free Soil fear that, if the states lost their power to regulate slavery, what

304-458: A uniform commercial regulation, more than any other consideration, led to the adoption of the federal Constitution. And unless the power be not only paramount, but exclusive, the Constitution must fail to attain one of the principal objects of its formation," McLean wrote. Groves v. Slaughter concerned a Mississippi man who had bought some slaves but believed that he could escape without paying

342-614: A weekly newspaper, and established a law practice. He won election to the United States House of Representatives , serving from 1813 until his election to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1816. He resigned from that position to accept appointment to the administration of President James Monroe , becoming the United States Postmaster General in 1823. Under Monroe and President John Quincy Adams , McLean presided over

380-598: Is more a matter of taste than of law." He also wrote the Court's opinion denying there was a common-law copyright in American law in Wheaton v. Peters . During the 1820s, McLean was a member of the prestigious Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences , who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of

418-919: The 1860 Republican National Convention . He was the sole dissenter in the fugitive slave case of Prigg v. Pennsylvania and one of two justices to dissent in the landmark case of Dred Scott v. Sandford . McLean served on the court until his death in 1861. McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey , the son of Fergus McLean and Sophia Blackford. After living in a succession of frontier towns, namely Morgantown, Virginia , Nicholasville, Kentucky , and Maysville, Kentucky , his family settled in Ridgeville , Warren County, Ohio in 1797. There, McLean received his formal education and developed his interest in law, later graduating from Harvard in 1806. It can be argued that his anti-slavery views also began to form at this time, given his upbringing as an evangelical Methodist with

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456-524: The Ohio Supreme Court , foreshadowed McLean's future dissent in an important fugitive slavery case, Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). In it, a black man named Richard Lunsford, a Kentucky slave, applied for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain freedom from his owner, Thomas D. Carneal. The Ohio Constitution of 1802 forbade slavery in the state, and at issue was whether slaves owned by a man traveling in Ohio became free once they traveled to Ohio and whether

494-555: The Star to his brother Nathaniel and hung up his shingle, beginning to practice law as an individual lawyer for the first time. He was elected to the U.S. House for the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses , serving from March 4, 1813, until he resigned in 1816 to take a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court , to which he had been elected on February 17, 1816, replacing William W. Irvin . State v. Carneal , which occurred during McLean's tenure on

532-611: The surveying , platting , and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands. The frantic pace of public land sales in the 19th century American West led to the idiomatic expression "land-office business", meaning a thriving or high-volume trade. For most of the active period of public land settlement, district land offices were

570-762: The GLO gained a focus for conservation of renewable public resources, as well as for their exploitation. On July 16, 1946, the GLO was merged with the United States Grazing Service (established in 1934 under the Taylor Grazing Act ) to become the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency of the Interior Department responsible for administering the remaining 264,000,000 acres (1,070,000 km ) of public lands still in federal ownership. An early commissioner

608-512: The authority to transport her across state lines. McLean suggests that this process was the only way to be fair to the slave, the owner, the free state, and the slaveholding state from which the slave came, stating that "[his] opinion, therefore, does not rest so much upon the particular law of Pennsylvania , as upon the inherent and sovereign power of a state, to protect its jurisdiction and the peace of its citizens, in any and every mode which its discretion shall dictate, which shall not conflict with

646-401: The basic operating units that conducted the business of transferring title. All transactions relative to the disposal of public land within a declared land district were handled through its land office by officials designated as registers , who recorded land applications, and receivers , who accepted payments for land and issued receipts. The position of receiver was abolished, July 1, 1925, and

684-413: The federal government does not regulate a particular area of foreign or interstate commerce, it means that federal policy maintains that such an area should remain unregulated, not that states should have the right to impose individual regulations. To McLean, only one authority could exercise any given power, and the judicial task was to determine whether a particular subject fell within a power delegated to

722-480: The federal government or within a power reserved to the States. McLean denied that the States could exercise a power unless the federal government chose to exercise the same power, at which point state regulation would be trumped by federal action. Although McLean recognized that both Congress and the States could impose a tax on the same object, he insisted these respective taxes result from the exercise of distinct powers, and did not represent any concurrent exercise of

760-438: The functions devolved upon the register, whose title was changed to "manager" in 1946. The first of 362 district land offices was opened at Steubenville, Ohio , on July 2, 1800; the last at Newcastle, Wyoming , on March 1, 1920. The peak year for land offices was 1890, with 123 in operation. The subsequent closing of the public domain gradually reduced the number of land offices, until, in 1933, only 25 offices remained. The GLO

798-526: The majority ruling that African-Americans cannot and were not intended to be citizens under the US Constitution, McLean argued that they had already the right to vote in five states. His strong dissenting views are believed to have forced the hand of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney into a harsher and more polarizing opinion than he originally planned. To the argument that "a colored citizen would not be an agreeable member of society," McLean responded, "This

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836-424: The man who sent Lunsford to Cincinnati, he did in fact forfeit his right to be Lunsford's owner. The most notable portion of this case was McLean's opinion, which highlighted his personal distaste for the institution of slavery: "Were it proper to consider it, the Court, as well as from the principles recognized by our Constitution and Laws, could not hesitate in declaring that SLAVERY [emphasis in original], except for

874-667: The military, government service, medical and other professions. McLean became the last surviving member of the Monroe and Quincy Adams Cabinets. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio , and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery there. Also interred there is Stanley Matthews , another associate justice. as well as chief justice Salmon P. Chase . During the American Civil War , Camp John McLean, a Union Army training camp in Cincinnati,

912-793: The name was discontinued. The forest included the Santa Rita Mountains in Pima County and Santa Cruz County , and is part of the Nogales Ranger District of Coronado. United States General Land Office Placed under the Department of the Interior when that department was formed in 1849, it was merged with the United States Grazing Service (established in 1934) to become the Bureau of Land Management on July 16, 1946. The GLO oversaw

950-485: The newly created Forest Service , under the Department of Agriculture . Beginning in the early 20th century, the GLO shifted from a primary function of land sales to issuing leases and collecting grazing fees for livestock raised on public lands, and royalties from minerals off lands recently withdrawn from disposal under the Withdrawal Act of 1910, as well as other custodial duties. Thus, beginning around 1900,

988-687: The official survey records of the GLO and BLM on a township basis. The GCDB data are available for download by the public in GIS shapefile format from the GeoCommunicator Land Survey Information System website. The GCDB coordinates are also available to the public in the GCDB flat file and GCDB coverage formats via the National Operations Center website. John McLean John McLean (March 11, 1785 – April 4, 1861)

1026-414: The other condemning slavery. In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), McLean dissented. By his reasoning, it was necessary for Prigg to take Morgan to court to demonstrate that she was, in fact, a slave. As such Prigg did not have the legal pretext to remove Morgan from the state of Pennsylvania, without first gaining judicial approval. A court had to decide that Morgan was technically a slave for Prigg to have

1064-693: The political spectrum, moving from a Jacksonian Democrat , to the Anti-Jackson Democrats, the Anti-Masonic Party , the Whigs , the Free Soilers , and finally the Republicans . For this reason he has been characterized as a " political opportunist " whose political affiliations varied. McLean was touted as a potential Whig presidential candidate throughout the 1830s-40s. President John Tyler offered him

1102-456: The post of Secretary of War , but he declined. Because of his anti-slavery-extension positions, he was considered by the new Republican party as a presidential candidate in 1856 , but the nomination went to John C. Frémont . McLean sought the presidency again in 1860 despite turning 75 that March. He won twelve votes on the first ballot at the Republican convention; Abraham Lincoln ultimately

1140-602: The posts of Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy . McLean declined both and was instead appointed to the Supreme Court by Jackson on March 6, 1829, to a seat vacated by Robert Trimble . McLean was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 7, 1829, receiving his commission the same day. He was sworn into office on March 12. Known as "The Politician on the Supreme Court," he associated himself with every party on

1178-496: The punishment of crimes, is an infringement upon the sacred rights of man: Rights, which he derives from his Creator, and which are inalienable." He resigned his judgeship in 1822 to take President James Monroe 's appointment to be Commissioner of the United States General Land Office , serving until 1823, when Monroe appointed him United States Postmaster General . McLean served in that post from December 9, 1823, to March 7, 1829, under Monroe and John Quincy Adams , presiding over

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1216-598: The same power. In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), he was one of two dissenting Justices to the majority vote, the other being Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis . Justice McLean cited Marie Louise v. Marot , an 1835 freedom suit appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court in which Presiding Judge George Mathews, Jr. stated that "[b]eing free for one moment...it was not in the power of [the plaintiff's] former owner to reduce her again to slavery." In opposition to

1254-477: The slave-trader due to a clause in the Mississippi constitution that seemed to forbid the importation of slaves for in-state sale after a certain date. For the Court, the issue became whether Congress possessed an exclusive right to regulate interstate commerce. If so, did it follow that states could not constitutionally regulate the slave trade? Moreover, should the Court answer in the affirmative, on what basis could

1292-544: Was John McLean , later an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . The BLM makes images of GLO records (federal land patents, survey plats and field notes, land status records, and tract books) issued between 1787 and present publicly available on its website. Since 1990, the BLM's Geographic Coordinates Database (GCDB) program has endeavored to generate coordinate values for each established PLSS corner using

1330-680: Was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress , as U.S. Postmaster General , and as a justice of the Ohio and United States Supreme Courts . He was often discussed for the Whig Party nominations for president, and is also one of the few people who served in all three branches of government. Born in New Jersey , McLean lived in several frontier towns before settling in Ridgeville, Ohio . He founded The Western Star ,

1368-426: Was nominated. McLean's tendency toward economic nationalism can be seen in cases such as Groves v. Slaughter , 40 U.S. 449 (1841). In this case, McLean upheld the right of Mississippi to restrict the introduction of slaves from other states. Though it was "not necessary" to the decision, McLean restated his nationalism by holding that the power to regulate commerce rested exclusively with Congress. "The necessity of

1406-603: Was placed under the Secretary of the Interior when the Department of the Interior was formed in 1849. Reacting to public concerns about forest conservation, Congress in 1891 authorized the President to withdraw timber lands from disposal. Grover Cleveland then created 17 forest reserves of nearly 18,000,000 acres (73,000 km ), which were initially managed by the GLO. In 1905, Congress transferred responsibility for these reserves to

1444-405: Was to stop its spread into the free North? McLean held that the States should be given the right to protect themselves from the "avarice and intrusion of the slave dealer." All of this he contended while holding the aforementioned view, which demonstrates his tortured reconciliation of two neo- Federalist political biases, which in this case contradict: one favoring an expansive national government,

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