Once upon a time in America, there was a leader considered by many historians to be:
"spiteful," "greedy," "jealous," "quick-tempered," "dull," "unlettered," and "haughty"
That man was William S. Cosby, the royal governor of the colony of New York from 1731 until his death in 1736. Here he is as described by University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School law professor Douglas O Linder on his Famous Trials website:
By all accounts, Cosby was spiteful, mean-spirited, quick-tempered, greedy, jealous, dull, and a petty tyrant. Too often many of these traits seemed to turn up among colonial governors who, overall, were quite a bad lot. There is a reason for this, according to one historian, who observed that governors consisted "most often of members of aristocratic families whose personal morals, or whose incompetence, were such that it was impossible to employ then nearer home."
Cosby has also been described as “devoid of statesmanship, seeking money and preferment.” In other words: not too terribly different from the current occupant of the oval office. And like the current president, the royal governor often found himself at odds with individual jurists within the justice system.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2pkni7O
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