OVERVIEW:

BORN:
December 6, 1752
Prince George’s County, Maryland

DIED:
March 6, 1844 (age 91), 
Glenn Dale, Maryland

EDUCATION:
Read Law, 1778 

POLITICAL PARTY:
Anti-Administration
Democratic-Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1775-1777:
Clerk, Maryland Council of Safety
1776:
Served in the Revolutionary War as a muster master and commissary of stores, and a member of the Maryland militia
1777-1781:
Clerk, Maryland House of Delegates
1776:
Delegate to the Constitutional Convention
1781-1782
Member of the Commission for the Sale of Confiscated British Property 
1781-1784:
Prosecutor in the Mayor’s Court in Annapolis, Maryland
1782-1786
Member, Maryland Governor’s Council
1787-1793:
Member, Maryland House of Delegates
1794-1796:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives
1796-1802:
Chief Justice, Maryland General Court
1802-1811
First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury
1811-1835:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court 

SOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Maryland State Archives
Biographical Directory of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Prince George’s County Courts
Wikipedia

ARTICLES: 
The Most Insignificant Justice (University of Chicago Law Review, 1983)

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