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WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 344 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829) , American jurist, nephew of George Washington, was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, on the 15th of June 1762. He graduated in 1778 at the College of William and
Mary
 , where he was an
original
  member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; was a member of a volunteer cavalry troop in 178o; studied law in Philadelphia in 1781, and began practice in his native county. He served in the
House
  of Delegates in 1787, and in the following year sat in the convention which ratified for Virginia the Federal Constitution. After living in
Alexandria
  for a short time he removed to Richmond and in 1798 was appointed an associate
justice
  of the United States Supreme
Court
  by President John Adams. He was George Washington's literary executor, and supervised the preparation of John Marshall's
Life
  of Washington (5 vols., 18041807); and on Mrs Washington's death in 1802 he inherited
Mount
  Vernon and a
part
  of the estate. He died in Philadelphia on the 26th of November 1829.


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