David Lewis Payne was known for all of the following except __________.

David Lewis Payne was a leading advocate of opening Indian Territory to settlement. He organized repeated incursions into the territory, lobbied in Washington, and established a camp at Rock Falls near the Kansas–Cherokee Nation border. Being a strict judge during the rush onto the Unassigned Lands was not one of his known roles, so D is the exception.

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