BUSHROD WASHINGTON (1762-1829)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 344
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
BUSHROD WASHINGTON (1762-1829)
, American jurist, nephew of George Washington, was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, on the 15th of June 1762
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He graduated in 1778 at the College of See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
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
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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
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After living in Alexandria for a short See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he removed to Richmond and in 1798 was appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court by President John See also: - ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams
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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
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He died in Philadelphia on the 26th of November 1829
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