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Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 – November 26, 1829) was a U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 associate justice and the nephew of George Washington
George Washington

George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
. While serving on the Marshall Court, he authored the opinion of Corfield v. Coryell
Corfield v. Coryell

Corfield v. Coryell Case citation was an 1823 federal circuit court case decided by Justice Bushrod Washington while riding circuit. In it, he upheld a New Jersey regulation forbidding non-residents from gathering oysters and clams against a challenge that New Jersey's law violated the Article Four of the United States Constitution Privil...
, 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (C.C.E.D. Penn. 1823), while riding circuit
Circuit court

Circuit court is the name of court systems in several common law jurisdictions. Originally it meant a court that would hold sessions in multiple locations within its judicial district; the judge or judges would travel in a circuit in order to adjudicate cases across a wide area....
 as an Associate Justice. In Corfield, Washington listed several rights traditionally viewed to be "fundamental." This list of fundamental rights has profoundly influenced later Constitutional jurisprudence, particularly with respect to the Privileges and Immunities Clause
Privileges and Immunities Clause

The Privileges and Immunities Clause prevents a U.S. state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner, with regard to basic civil rights....
.

Washington was nominated for the court after another Federalist, John Marshall
John Marshall

John Marshall was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835....
, turned John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
 down and endorsed him.






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Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 – November 26, 1829) was a U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 associate justice and the nephew of George Washington
George Washington

George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
. While serving on the Marshall Court, he authored the opinion of Corfield v. Coryell
Corfield v. Coryell

Corfield v. Coryell Case citation was an 1823 federal circuit court case decided by Justice Bushrod Washington while riding circuit. In it, he upheld a New Jersey regulation forbidding non-residents from gathering oysters and clams against a challenge that New Jersey's law violated the Article Four of the United States Constitution Privil...
, 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (C.C.E.D. Penn. 1823), while riding circuit
Circuit court

Circuit court is the name of court systems in several common law jurisdictions. Originally it meant a court that would hold sessions in multiple locations within its judicial district; the judge or judges would travel in a circuit in order to adjudicate cases across a wide area....
 as an Associate Justice. In Corfield, Washington listed several rights traditionally viewed to be "fundamental." This list of fundamental rights has profoundly influenced later Constitutional jurisprudence, particularly with respect to the Privileges and Immunities Clause
Privileges and Immunities Clause

The Privileges and Immunities Clause prevents a U.S. state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner, with regard to basic civil rights....
.

Washington was nominated for the court after another Federalist, John Marshall
John Marshall

John Marshall was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835....
, turned John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
 down and endorsed him. He became an associate justice on February 4, 1799, at the age of 36. After Marshall became Chief Justice
Chief Justice of the United States

The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal courts and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States....
 two years later, he voted with Marshall on all but three occasions (one being Ogden v. Saunders
Ogden v. Saunders

Ogden v. Saunders, Case citation , was a Supreme Court of the United States case that determined the scope of a bankruptcy law in contrast to a clause of the Constitution of the United States....
). In 1816, he helped create the American Colonization Society
American Colonization Society

The American Colonization Society was an organization that helped in founding Liberia, a colony on the coast of West Africa. In 1821 Black Americans traveled there from the United States....
 and held the position as its first president for his entire life. Justice Washington was an owner (and seller) of slaves.

Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia
Westmoreland County, Virginia

Westmoreland County is a county located in the Northern Neck of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 16,718....
, and graduated from the College of William and Mary
College of William and Mary

The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public university research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, Virginia, United States....
, where he was one of the first members of Phi Beta Kappa. His uncle George Washington
George Washington

George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
 sponsored Bushrod's legal studies with fellow Founder James Wilson
James Wilson

James Wilson , was a Scotland lawyer, most notable as a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. He was twice elected to the Continental Congress, a major force in the drafting of the United States Constitution, a leading legal theoretician and one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Cour...
. He inherited Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon (plantation)

Mount Vernon, located near Alexandria, Virginia, Virginia, was the plantation#Other types of plantation home of the first President of the United States, George Washington....
 from George after the latter died in 1799.

His remains are imposingly interred at Mount Vernon, along with his wife (who died of grief within two days of his demise).

Further reading

  • White, G. Edward. The Marshall Court & Cultural Change, 1815-35. Published in an abridged edition, 1991.


External links

  • from the OYEZ Project, U.S. Supreme Court media.