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Robert Trimble

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Robert Trimble lived from November 17, 1776 to August 25, 1828 and was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, as United States district judge for the District of Kentucky, and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1826 until his death in 1828. During his brief Supreme Court tenure he authored several majority opinions, including the decision in Ogden v. Saunders, the only majority opinion that Chief Justice John Marshall ever dissented from during his 34 years on the Court.

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