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WASHINGTON (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., 1804–1807); 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 .