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John Marshall
Birth: September 24, 1755, Germantown, Virginia.
Education: Tutored at home; self-taught in law; attended one course of law lectures at College of William and Mary, 1780.
Official Positions: Member, Virginia House of Delegates, 1782–1785, 1787–1790, 1795–1796; member, Executive Council of State, 1782–1784; recorder, Richmond City Hustings Court, 1785–1788; delegate, state convention for ratification of federal Constitution, 1788; minister to France, 1797–1798; U.S. representative, 1799–1800; U.S. secretary of state, 1800–1801; member, Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated chief justice by President John Adams, January 20, 1801, to replace Oliver Ellsworth, who had resigned; confirmed by the Senate, January 27, 1801, by a voice vote; took judicial oath February 4, 1801; served until July 6, 1835; replaced by Roger B. Taney, nominated by President Andrew Jackson.
Death: July 6, ...
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