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    John Marshall

    Chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835,

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    • Early Life and Revolutionary War Service
    • Law Practice and Entrance Into Politics
    • From Secretary of State to Chief Justice
    • Marshall’s Impact on The Supreme Court
    • Death and Legacy
    • Sources

    Marshall was born on September 24, 1755 on the Virginia frontier, in what is now Fauquier County. He was the oldest of 15 children born to Thomas Marshall, a land surveyor who worked for the powerful Lord Fairfax and was later elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, and Mary Keith, a granddaughter of William Randolph, a key figure in the establ...

    After leaving military service in 1780, Marshall studied law at William & Mary with the renowned jurist George Wythe and courted his future wife, Mary Willis (Polly) Ambler, who lived in nearby Yorktown. He was soon admitted to the Virginia bar and began his own law practice, which flourished due to his success defending clients against British cre...

    In 1798, Marshall was elected to the House of Representatives. He served for less than two years before Adams appointed him as secretary of state in 1800. After losing to Jefferson in the tumultuous election of 1800, Adams nominated Marshall as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He took office in early 1801, just weeks before Jefferson’s inau...

    At the time, the Supreme Court had little authority relative to the president and Congress; it didn’t even have its own building, meeting instead in a vacant committee room at the Capitol. But over his 34 years as chief justice, Marshall shaped the judicial branchinto an equal force in government alongside the president (executive branch) and Congr...

    Though the Federalist Party had effectively dissolved by 1815, Marshall remained a champion of the idea of a strong national government, and a worthy adversary for Democratic-Republican political rivals from Jefferson to Andrew Jackson. During Marshall’s tenure, the Supreme Court would issue more than 1,000 decisions—more than half of those written...

    Joel Richard Paul. Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times (Penguin Publishing Group, 2019) Ben Wynne. “John Marshall.” Washington Library - Center for Digital History - Digital Encyclopedia, Mount Vernon. “John Marshall, the Great Chief Justice.” William & Mary Law School.

  2. John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fourth-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and is widely regarded ...

  3. The John Marshall House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 818 East Marshall Street in Richmond, Virginia.It was the home of Chief Justice of the United States and Founding Father John Marshall, who was appointed to the court in 1801 by President John Adams and served for the rest of his life, writing such influential decisions as Marbury v.

  4. Dec 13, 2023 · Image Source: Wikipedia. Biography of John Marshall. John Marshall (1755–1845) was a Founding Father, an officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a congressional representative from Virginia, Secretary of State, and 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  5. The Midnight Appointments: John Marshall. This portrait of John Marshall by John Wesley Jarvis was done while Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to that appointment, he served as secretary of state under President John Adams.

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