biography
pronunciation:
[dooval]
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| lived:
| (1752–1844)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Prince George's Co, Maryland, USA. He fought in the American Revolution and served the US House of Representatives (Virginia, 1794–6). He became a judge on the Maryland Supreme Court (1796–1802) and President Jefferson's comptroller of the treasury (1802–11) before President Madison appointed him to the US Supreme Court (1811–35). |
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