Marshall, John
Born in a log cabin in the wilderness near Germantown, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary. Married Mary Willis Ambler January 3, 1783. They had ten children. Admitted to the bar in 1781. He was a member of the Masons in Richmond, Virginia.
Elected to Congress and served March 4, 1799, to June 7, 1800. Appointed Secretary of State June 6, 1800. Served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1801 to 1835. Author of The Life of George Washington. He died in Philadelphia.
Marshall appears on paper money:
$20 Treasury Note, series of 1890 and 1891
$500 Federal Reserve Note, series of 1918
$1 Southern Bank of Indiana, Terre Haute
$10 Stafford Bank, Dover, New Hampshire
$50 Farmers Bank, Schuylkill County, Penns
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1832Atlas To Marshall's Life Of Washington
[Marshall, John]. ATLAS TO MARSHALL'S LIFE OF WASHINGTON. Philadelphia: J. Crissy, (1832). 8vo [22 by 14 cm], original cloth-backed boards; pink cover label printed in black. Engraved title page by J. Yeager; ten hand-tinted double-page maps. Spine cloth town near top. Foxed, with some offsetting. Very good or so. Published to accompany the second edition of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall's famous biography of Washington. First published between 1804 and 1807, Marshall's was the first biography written of a U.S. president, and it remains am important resource today. Marshall had been given access to Washington's papers by Bushrod Washington, nephew of the first president. Howes M317. Sabin 44789.
