Joseph Story lived from 1779 to 1845 and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1812 until his death, appointed at age thirty-two, the youngest justice in the Court's history. He simultaneously held the Dane Professorship of Law at Harvard, where his lectures helped establish the case-method study of American law, and he authored the multi-volume Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833) along with influential commentaries on equity jurisprudence, conflict of laws and agency, works that shaped nineteenth-century American legal education on both sides of the Atlantic.
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RoleAssociate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States; legal scholar 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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What public offices did Joseph Story hold before he joined the Supreme Court?
He practiced law in Salem and sat in the Massachusetts legislature and the United States House before Madison nominated him in 1811.
Before his Supreme Court appointment, Joseph Story practiced law in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1801 to 1811. He served as a Massachusetts state representative from 1805 to 1807 and again in 1811, when he was also speaker, and as a United States representative from Massachusetts in 1808 and 1809. President James Madison nominated him on November 15, 1811, to the seat vacated by William Cushing, and the Senate confirmed him on November 18, 1811.
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Story presided over the court after Chief Justice John Marshall's death in 1835. In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), despite his opposition to slavery, Story upheld the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 to strike down state statutes regarding the recapture of escaped slaves. Also in 1842, Story created a "federal common law" for commercial cases in Swift v. Tyson.
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Wikidata Q1368374, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1779-09-18
Wikidata Q1368374, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1845-09-10
Wikidata Q1368374, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Marblehead
Wikidata Q1368374, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Cambridge
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Story, writing for the unanimous majority, rejected the fraudulent Bill of Exchange, this remains less significant than his development of federal common law.
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Joseph Story (September 18, 1779 - September 10, 1845) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1812 to 1845.
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