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Robert Trimble

associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Robert Trimble (born 1777, Augusta county, Virginia, U.S.β€”died August 25, 1828, Paris, Kentucky) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1826–28). Trimble grew up on the Kentucky frontier and studied law privately, being admitted to the bar in 1803. In 1807 he was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeals, but after two years he returned to private practice, declining several subsequent offers of judicial appointment. In 1813 he became a...

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