biography
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| lived:
| (1790–1867)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He served as mayor of Savannah, as a circuit court judge (1824–9), and in the US House of Representatives (Georgia, 1829). President Jackson named him to the US Supreme Court (1835–67), where he had a long but undistinguished career. |
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