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OVERVIEW:

BORN:
September 18, 1779,
Marblehead, Massachusetts

DIED:
September 10, 1845 (age 65)
Cambridge, Massachusetts

EDUCATION:
Harvard University (1798)
Read Law (1801)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democratic-Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1801:
Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar 
1801-1811:
Practiced law in Salem, Massachusetts
1805-1807:
Member, Massachusetts House of Representatives
1808-1809
Member, U.S. House of Representatives 
1811:
Member, Massachusetts House of Representatives,
Served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
1812-1845:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
1820:
Delegate to the Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention 

SOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Biographical Directory of Congress
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Wikipedia

PAPERS:
Life and Letters (Internet Archive, Haihi Trust)
Online Books by Joseph Story (University of Pennsylvania)

PORTRAITS:

Artist: George P.A. Healy (U.S. Supreme Court Collection)
Artist: Chester Harding, 1827 (National Portrait Gallery)
Library of Congress