OVERVIEW:

BORN:
January 23, 1765,
King and Queen County, Virginia

DIED:
February 7, 1826,
Frankfort, Kentucky (age 61)

EDUCATION:
Liberty Hall Academy (now Washington and Lee University), 1783
Read Law (1786)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democratic-Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1783:
Tutor at Liberty Hall 
1784:
Moved to Danville, Kentucky (then Virginia)
1779, 1781:
Continental Army
1784-1792:
Served as Clerk at Several Conventions Seeking Statehood for Kentucky
1788:
Admitted to the Virginia Bar 
1791:
Commissioned to be Captain of a Company of Cavalry in Lincoln County, Virginia
1792:
Became Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia of Lincoln Count
1788-1801:
Practiced Law in Danville, Kentucky
1789-1792
Clerk, U.S. District Court, District of Kentucky
1792,1799:
Clerk, Kentucky Constitutional Conventions
1793-1794:
Clerk, Lexington (Kentucky) Democratic Society
1792-1801:
Clerk, Kentucky House of Representatives
1799-1801:
Clerk, Kentucky Court of Appeals,
1801-1806:
Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals
1806-1807;
Chief Justice, Kentucky Court of Appeals
1807-1826:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court,
First Supreme Court Justice from west of the Appalachian Mountains

SOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Congressional Quarterly
Cornell Law School
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Wikipedia

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