BUSHROD WASHINGTON

Artist: Chester Harding (National Portrait Gallery)
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BORN:
June 5. 1762,
Mount Holly, Virginia

DIED:
November 26, 1829 (age 67),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

EDUCATION:
College of William & Mary (AB, 1778)
Read Law (1784)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Federalist

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1781-1782:
Private in the Continental Army
1784:
Practiced Law in Westmoreland County, Virginia
1785-1790:
Practiced Law in Alexandria, Virginia
1787-1788:
Member, Virginia House of Delegates
1788:
Delegate to the Virginia Convention to Ratify the U.S. Constitution 
1790-1798:
Practiced Law in Richmond. Virginia 
1798-1829:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Mount Vernon
Oyez
College of William & Mary
Wikipedia

PORTRAITS:

Artist: Chester Harding (National Portrait Gallery)
Artist: Adrian Lamb (Supreme Court Collection)