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Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 - November 26, 1829) served a long but undistinguished career on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Washington was nominated for the court after another Federalist, John Marshall turned John Adams down and endorsed him. He became an associate justice on February 4, 1799, at the age of 36. After Marshall became Chief Justice two years later, he voted with Marshall on all but three occasions (one being Ogden v. Saunders).
He was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia and graduated from the College of William and Mary. He was a nephew of George Washington, and inherited Mount Vernon from his uncle when the latter died in 1799.
External link
- Biography (http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/11/biography) from the OYEZ Project
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