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See also: American jurist, was See also: born at See also: Marblehead, Massachusetts, on the 18th of See also: September 1779
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He graduated at Harvard in 1798, was admitted to the See also: bar at See also: Salem, Mass., in 1801, and soon attained See also: eminence in his profession
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He was a member of the Democratic party, and served in the Massachusetts See also: House of Representatives in 1805-18o8, and in 1810-1812 for two terms as See also: speaker, and was a representative in Congress from See also: December 1808 to See also: March 18o9
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In
See also: November 1811, at the age of See also: thirty-two, he became, by President See also: Madison's See also: appointment, an associate See also: justice of the See also: United States Supreme See also: Court
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This position he retained. until his See also: death
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Here he found his true sphere of See also: work
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The traditions of the American See also: people, their strong See also: prejudice for the See also: local supremacy of the states and against a centralized See also: government, had yielded reluctantly to the establishment of the Federal legislative and executive in 1789
.
The Federal judiciary had been organized at the same See also: time, but had never grasped the full measure of its See also: powers
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Soon after See also: Story's appointment the Supreme Court began to bring out into plain view the powers which the constitution had given it over See also: state courts and state legislation
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The leading place in this work belongs to Chief Justice See also: John
See also: Marshall, but Story has a very large share in that remarkable series of decisions and opinions, from 1812 until 1832, by which the work was accomplished
.
In addition to this he built up the department of See also: admiralty See also: law in the United States courts; he devoted much See also: attention to See also: equity See also: jurisprudence, and rendered invaluable services to the department of patent law
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In 1819 he attracted much attention by his vigorous charges to See also: grand juries, denouncing the slave See also: trade, and in 182o he was a prominent member of the Massachusetts See also: Convention called to revise the state constitution
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In 1829 he became the first Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, and continued until his death to hold this position, meeting with remarkable success as a teacher and winning the affection of his students, whom he imbued with much of his ownSee also: enthusiasm
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He died at
Cambridge, Mass., on the loth of September 1845
.
His industry was unremitting, and, besides attending to his duties as an associate justice and a professor of law, he wrote many reviews and See also: magazine articles, delivered various orations on public occasions, and published a large number of See also: works on legal subjects, which won high praise on both sides of the See also: Atlantic
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Among his publications are: Commentaries on the Law of Bailments (1832) ; Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (3 vols., 1833), a work of profound learning which is still the See also: standard See also: treatise on the subject; Commentaries on the Conflict of See also: Laws (1834), by many regarded as his ablest work; Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence (2 vols., 1835—1836) ; Equity Pleadings (1838) ; Law of Agency (1839) ; Law of Partnership (1841); Law of Bills of See also: Exchange (1843); and Law of Promissory Notes (1845)
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He also edited several standard legal works
.
His Supreme Court decisions may be found in Cranch's, See also: Wheaton's and Peters's Reports, his Circuit Courts decisions in See also: Mason's, See also: Sumner's and Story's Reports
.
His See also: Miscellaneous Writings, first published in 1835, appeared in an enlarged edition (2 vols. in 1851)
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See The Lifi and Letters of See also: Joseph Story (2 vols., See also: Boston and See also: London, 1851), by his son, W
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Story
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