...States. Immediately after he resigned his seat in the Senate of the United States, he was appointed to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the state of Tennessee. This he likewise held but a short time, and retired to an elegant farm about ten miles...

...member of the Senate. The duties of this exalted station he discharged till 1793, when he accepted of a seat on the bench of the supreme court of the state of Delaware, as chief justice. In this station he continued till the autumn of 1798, when he was suddenly...

...distinguished for learning in the law, and devotion to its pursuit. Mr. Jackson had held for some time a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the State, until compelled by ill-health to retire from the duties of an office, which are too laborious for even...

...States. Immediately after he resigned his seat in the Senate of the United States, he was appointed to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the state of Tennessee. This he likewise held but a short time, and retired to a handsome farm about ten miles...

...States. Immediately after he resigned his seat in the Senate of the United States, he was appointed to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the state of Tennessee. This he likewise held but a short time, and retired to a handsome farm about ten miles...

...New-Haven. He was also judge of the city court one or two years ; and if he had been willing to accept a seat on the bench of the supreme court of the state, he would have received the office by an almost unanimous vote. But he declined being a candidate for...

...law in Taunton, in 1807. He represented the District in which ho lived, in Congress four years ; has occupied a seat on the Bench of the Supreme Court of the State fifteen years, and has been thrice Governor of the Commonwealth. Once, in consequence of the death of Gov. Eustis...

...obtained there the private instruction of a gentleman, who has since become prominent, and now occupies a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the state. The family in which he resided in Lebanon still relate with pleasure the peculiar industry of their...

...be spared from public life. Soon after his return to Tennessee, he was elected by the Legislature to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the State ; a post which he said he accepted in obedience to his favorite maxim, that the citizen of a free commonwealth...

...College, in Ohio ; and also the offer gracefully made to him by his successor, Governor Bullock, of a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the State; and declining also a commission from the Federal Government to go to England and France, to institute...