Thomas Todd lived from January 23, 1765 to February 7, 1826 and was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia, he briefly served in the American Revolutionary War before completing his education and moving westward, where he took part in the founding of Kentucky, practicing law and serving as a clerk and judge before becoming a Supreme Court justice. He married twice and had eight children in total. His handful of opinions on the Supreme Court mostly concerned land claims, and he was labeled the most insignificant United States Supreme Court justice by legal scholar Frank H. Easterbrook in a 1983 University of Chicago Law Review article.
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