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Even libertarians long for heroes, and middling men who helped slay the Great Bank Hydra like Levi Woodbury make for decent libertarian heroes. In our third section from the Democratic Review ’s biography of Woodbury- - at the time Van Buren’s Secretary of the Treasury- - presents an economic analysis of 1837 most libertarians will find ...
Sep 13, 2017 · levi woodbury. Jurist, born in Francestown, N.H., 22 December 1789; died in Portsmouth, N.H., 4 September 1851. He was descended from John Woodbury, of Somersetshire, [Somerset] England, who settled first at Cape Ann in 1624, and at Naumkeag (now Salem) in 1626.
Woodbury, Levi, 1789–1851, American cabinet officer and jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1845–51), b. Hillsboro, co., N.H. Important as a politician and jurist in New Hampshire, he served as governor (1823–24) and as U.S.
Levi Woodbury (1837–1841) Levi Woodbury was born in 1789 in Francestown, New Hampshire. He attended the local Atkinson Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College, with honors, in 1809. He then studied the law and was admitted to the New Hampshire state bar in 1812. After four years of practicing law, Woodbury became clerk to the New ...
Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial and legal papers, genealogical notes, autograph collections, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly of Levi Woodbury and also of his son, Charles Levi Woodbury, and other family members. Papers of Levi Woodbury document his service as U.S. secretary of the navy in Andrew Jackson's cabinet, U.S. secretary of the treasury in the ...
Manuscript Letter Signed, Levi Woodbury, one page, with integral leaf attached, 8 ” x 9¾”, Navy Department [ Washington, D.C.], February 21, 1833. Woodbury, then President Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of the Navy, sends a cordial letter to Nicholas Biddle, president of the Second Bank of the United States, to return an earlier letter.
Charles Levi Woodbury (May 22, 1820 – July 1, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician. Life. Woodbury was born on May 22, 1820, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father was Levi Woodbury, a prominent New Hampshire lawyer who served as governor, U.S. senator, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, and Supreme Court Justice.
