OVERVIEW:

BORN:
March 11, 1785
Morris County, New Jersey

DIED:
April 4, 1861 (age 76)
Cincinnati, Ohio

EDUCATION:
Read Law (1807)

POLITICAL PARTIES:
Democratic-Republican
National Republican
Democratic 
Anti-Masonic 
Whig 
Free Soil 
Republican

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1789:
Moved to Morgantown, Virginia
1790:
Moved to Nicholasville, Kentucky
1793:
Moved to Maysville, Kentucky
1797:
Moved to Lebanon, Ohio 
1807:
Admitted to the Ohio Bar
1807-1812:
Founder/ Editor of the Western Star (weekly newspaper)
1807-1812:
Practiced Law in Lebanon, Ohio 
1811-1812:
Examiner, U.S. Congressional Land Office in Cincinnati, Ohio
1813-1816:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives 
1816-1822:
Associate Justice, Ohio Supreme Court
1822-1823:
Commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office
1823-1829:
U.S. Postmaster General
1829-1861:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court 
1857:
Wrote the Dissenting Opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford

SOURCES: 
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Biographical Directory of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Ohio History Central
Supreme Court of Ohio
Dickinson College
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Library of Congress
Oyez
Wikipedia