OVERVIEW:

BORN:
December 22, 1789
Francestown, New Hampshire

DIED:
September 4, 1851 (age 61)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire

EDUCATION:
Dartmouth College (1809)
Litchfield  (Tapping Reeve) Law School
Read Law (1812)

POLITICAL PARTIES:
Jacksonian,
Democrat 

HIGHLIGHTS:
1812:
Admitted to the Bar
1812-1816:
Practiced Law in Francestown, New Hampshire
1816-1817:
Clerk, New Hampshire State Senate 
1817-1823:
Judge, Superior Court of New Hampshire 
1819:
Moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire
1823-1824:
Governor of New Hampshire
1824:
Practiced Law in Portsmouth, New Hampshire 
1825:
Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives 
1825-1831:
U.S. Senator from New Hampshire,
Jacksonian 
1831-1834:
U.S. Secretary of the Navy
1834-1841:
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
1841-1845:
U.S. Senator from New Hampshire,
Democrat 
1845-1851:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court 

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
U.S. Navy
Department of the Treasury
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Litchfield Historical Society
Wikipedia

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