John Marshall

Personal

Birthday: 
9/24/1755
Birthplace: 
Prince William County, VA
Date of Death: 
7/6/1835
Place of Death: 
Philadelphia, PA
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Culpeper County [Virginia] Minutemen lieutenant, 1775-1776
Continental Army lieutenant, Eleventh Virginia Regiment, 1776-1780
Private practice, Fauquier County, Virginia, 1780-1783
Private practice, Richmond, Virginia, 1783-1797
State delegate, Virginia, 1782, 1784-1785, 1787-1788
Member, Virginia Council of State, 1782-1784
Recorder, Richmond City [Virginia] Hustings Court, 1785-1788
Delegate, Virginia convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution, 1788
Minister to France, U.S. Department of State, 1797-1798
U.S. representative from Virginia, 1799-1800
Secretary of State, 1800-1801

Education

Name of School: 
Read law
Degree Year: 
1780

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
Supreme Court of the United States, Chief Justice
Court Name: 

Supreme Court of the United States

President Nominating: 
John Adams
Party Affiliation of President: 
Federalist
Commission Date: 
01/31/1801
Termination Date: 
07/06/1835
Termination Reason: 
Death
Bankruptcy and Magistrate Services: 

Allotment as Circuit Justice:
Fifth Circuit, April 29, 1802-July 6, 1835