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William Cushing
Birth: March 1, 1732, Scituate, Massachusetts.
Education: Graduated Harvard, 1751, honorary LL.D., 1785; Yale, honorary A.M., 1753; studied law under Jeremiah Gridley; admitted to the bar in 1755.
Official Positions: Judge, probate court for Lincoln County, Massachusetts (now Maine), 1760–1761; judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts Bay province, 1772–1777; chief justice, Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1777–1780, Supreme Judicial Court, 1780–1789; member, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1779; vice president, Massachusetts Convention, which ratified U.S. Constitution, 1788; delegate to Electoral College, 1788.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated associate justice by President George Washington, September 24, 1789; confirmed by the Senate, September 26, 1789, by a voice vote; took judicial oath February 2, 1790; served until September 13, 1810; replaced by Joseph Story, nominated by President James Madison.
Death: September 13, 1810, ...
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