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Bushrod Washington Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Bushrod Washington, in an engraving, 1891.

Bushrod Washington

associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Bushrod Washington (born June 5, 1762, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died November 26, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1798 to 1829. A nephew of George Washington, he graduated in 1778 from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he was one of the original members of the Phi Beta Kappa society. He served in the Continental Army until the end of the American...

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