Levi Woodbury
Personal
Birthday:
12/22/1789
Birthplace:
Francestown, NH
Date of Death:
9/4/1851
Place of Death:
Portsmouth, NH
Race or Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male Prior Employment:
Private practice, Francestown, New Hampshire, 1812-1816
Clerk, New Hampshire State Senate, 1816-1817
Associate justice, New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature, 1817-1823
Governor, New Hampshire, 1823-1824
Private practice, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1824
Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1825
U.S. senator from New Hampshire, 1825-1831, 1841-1845
State senator-elect (did not serve), New Hampshire, 1831
Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834
Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841
Education
Name of School:
Dartmouth College
Degree Year:
1809
Name of School - Second:
Litchfield (Tapping Reeve) Law School
Name of School - Third:
Read law
Degree Year - Third:
1812 Judicial Career
Court Name:
Supreme Court of the United States
Court Name:
Supreme Court of the United States
President Nominating:
James K. Polk
Party Affiliation of President:
Democratic
Commission Date:
01/03/1846
Termination Date:
09/04/1851
Termination Reason:
Death Bankruptcy and Magistrate Services:
Allotment as Circuit Justice:
First Circuit, ca. October 1, 1845-September 4, 1851