John McKinley

John McKinley (born May 1, 1780, Culpeper County, Virginia, U.S.—died July 19, 1852, Louisville, Kentucky) was an American politician and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1837–52). After practicing law briefly in Kentucky, where he grew up, McKinley settled in Huntsville, Alabama, then a center of planting and political interests, in 1818. In 1820 he was elected to the Alabama state legislature and two years later, despite the support of the Georgia political...