Jurists

John Marshall

Also Known As John Marshall

Citation Formats

General Reference

Law Atlas. "John Marshall." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://law.interactiveatlas.org/jurists/john-marshall.

APA Style

Law Atlas. (n.d.). John Marshall. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://law.interactiveatlas.org/jurists/john-marshall

BibTeX

@misc{lawatlas-john-marshall,
  author = {Law Atlas},
  title = {John Marshall},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://law.interactiveatlas.org/jurists/john-marshall},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Fourth Chief Justice of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1835, the longest tenure of any Chief Justice in American history. His opinion in Marbury v. Madison (1803) established judicial review, the federal courts' power to hold an Act of Congress unconstitutional, as a settled feature of American constitutional law. His tenure also settled the supremacy of federal law and the scope of the Commerce Clause in cases such as McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden.

Facts

Role

Judge (Chief Justice of the United States) 1

Nationality / Jurisdiction

United States; federal common law system 1

Born

1755 1

Birth Date

1755-09-24 1

Birthplace

Germantown (near Midland), Virginia, then British America 1

Died

1835 1

Death Date

1835-07-06 1

Place of Death

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Formulated

Judicial Review

Marbury v. Madison (1803), already recorded on this atlas as established-by Judicial Review, is Marshall's own opinion; this edge names the person, the case edge names the case.

Source The Oyez Project