Bushrod Washington lived from June 5, 1762 to November 26, 1829 and was an American attorney and politician from the Washington family who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829, where he was a staunch ally of Chief Justice John Marshall. He was a co-founder and president of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the emigration of formerly enslaved people to Africa. The nephew of American founding father and president George Washington, he inherited his uncles papers and Mount Vernon, taking possession in 1802 after the death of Martha Washington, his uncles widow, and with Marshalls help published a biography of the first president.
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