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See also:

• WOODBURY
• WOODBURY, CHARLES HERBERT (1864— )
• LEVI WOODBURY (1789—1851)

WOODBURY (1789—1851)  , American political leader, was born at Francestown, New Hampshire, on the 22nd of December 1789 . He graduated from Dartmouth College in 18o9, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and was a judge of the superior court from 1816 to 1823 . In 1823—1824 he was governor of the state, in 1825 was a member and speaker of the state House of Representatives, and in 1825—1831 and again in 1841—1845 was a member of the U.S . Senate . He was secretary of the navy in 1831—1834, secretary of the treasury in 1834—1841, and associate justice of the U.S . Supreme Court from 1846 until his death, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 4th of September 1851 . From about 1825 to 1845 Woodbury was the undisputed leader of the Jacksonian Democracy in New England . See his Writings, Political, Judicial and Literary (3 vols., Boston, 1852), edited by Nahum Capen; and an article in the New England Magazine, new series, xxxvii. p . 658 (February 1908) .