Cushing, William, 1732-1810
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Name (Hebrew)
קושינג, ויליאם, 1732-1810
Name (Latin)
Cushing, William, 1732-1810
Date of birth
1732-03-01
Date of death
1810-09-13
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Cushing, William; born March 1, 1732, in Scituate, Massachusetts; died September 13, 1810, in Scituate, Massachusetts; associate justice, Supreme Court of the United States; confirmed by the Senate on September 26, 1789; service terminated on September 13, 1810, due to death; A.B., Harvard, 1751; read law, 1755; private practice, Scituate, Massachusetts, 1755-1760; justice of the peace, register of deeds, and probate court judge, Lincoln County, Maine, 1760-1772; judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, 1772-1789, chief justice, 1777-1789 (name changed to Supreme Judicial Court in 1780); nominated to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, January 26, 1796; confirmed, January 27, 1796; declined appointment ( (Biographical directory of Article III federal judges, 1789-present, viewed December 26, 2024) )
- Who was who in America:Historical volume, 1607-1896, page 200 (Cushing, William; justice, U.S. Supreme Court; born Scituate, Massachusetts, March 1, 1732; died Scituate, Massachusetts, September 13, 1810; admitted to bar, 1755; judge, Probate Court for Lincoln County, Massachusetts (now Maine), 1760-1761; judge, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1772; chief justice, 1777-1789; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-1810; a founder of American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
- Flanders, H. The lives and times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Ct. of the U.S., 1875:v. 2, p. 11 (William Cushing)
- MoSU-L/NLT files(hdg.: Cushing, William, 1732-1810)