Edward Baker 'Eddie' Lincoln (March 10, 1846 – July 7, 1934) was the second son of President Abraham Lincoln and 8th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, serving from 1895 to 1920. He presided over several important cases in the early 20th century, such as United States v. State of Texas (1897), which settled the longstanding dispute over Greer County, Texas, and assigned the land to Oklahoma Territory, or the Arizona v. South California (1908) land dispute over rights to use of the lower Colorado River (in which he ruled in favor of compromise by dividing territorial rights). Lincoln's last significant and possibly most landmark case was Evered v. United States (1919), where Michael Evered – a noted French sympathizer and leader of the Socialist Party of America who promoted opposition
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