Nathan Clifford lived from August 18, 1803 to July 25, 1881 and was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist, one of the few people to have held a constitutional office in each of the three branches of the federal government. He represented Maine in the United States House of Representatives from 1839 to 1843, then served in the administration of President James K. Polk as United States Attorney General from 1846 to 1848 and as United States ambassador to Mexico from 1848 to 1849, in which office he signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1858 President James Buchanan appointed Clifford an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, where he served until his death in 1881.
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