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Levi Woodbury
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States · 1846
Levi Woodbury , Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Levi Woodbury (December 22, 1789 – September 4, 1851) was an American attorney, jurist, and Democratic politician from New Hampshire. During a four-decade career in public office, Woodbury served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a United States senator, the ninth governor of New Hampshire, and cabinet member in the Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren administrations.
Education
- Litchfield (Tapping Reeve) Law School
- Dartmouth College1809
- Read law1812
Career
Private practice, Francestown, New Hampshire, 1812-1816; Clerk, New Hampshire State Senate, 1816-1817; Associate justice, New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature, 1817-1823; Governor, New Hampshire, 1823-1824; Private practice, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1824; Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1825; U.S. senator from New Hampshire, 1825-1831, 1841-1845; State senator-elect (did not serve), New Hampshire, 1831; Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834; Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841
Biography
Levi Woodbury (December 22, 1789 – September 4, 1851) was an American attorney, jurist, and Democratic politician from New Hampshire. During a four-decade career in public office, Woodbury served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, a United States senator, the ninth governor of New Hampshire, and cabinet member in the Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren administrations.
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