Bushrod Washington
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Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 - November 26, 1829) served a long but undistinguished career on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Washington was nominated for the court after another Federalist, John Marshall turned John Adams down and endorsed him. He became an associate justice on February 4, 1799, at the age of 36. After Marshall became Chief Justice two years later, he voted with Marshall on all but three occasions (one being Ogden v. Saunders). In 1816, he helped create the American Colonization Society.
He was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia and graduated from the College of William and Mary, where he was one of the first members of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a nephew of George Washington, and inherited Mount Vernon from his uncle when the latter died in 1799.
External links
- Biography (http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/11/biography) from the OYEZ Project
- Biography (Infoplease) (http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0851532.html)
| Preceded by: James Wilson | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States February 4, 1799 – November 26, 1829 | Succeeded by: Henry Baldwin |