Levi Woodbury | |
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Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court From: September 20, 1845 – September 4, 1851 | |
Nominator | James Polk |
Predecessor | Joseph Story |
Successor | Benjamin Curtis |
U.S. Senator from New Hampshire From: March 4, 1841 – September 20, 1845; March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1831 | |
Predecessor | Henry Hubbard; John Parrott |
Successor | Benning Jenness; Isaac Hill |
13th United States Secretary of the Treasury From: July 1, 1834 – March 3, 1841 | |
President | Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren |
Predecessor | Roger Taney |
Successor | Thomas Ewing |
9th United States Secretary of the Navy From: May 23, 1831 – June 30, 1834 | |
President | Andrew Jackson |
Predecessor | John Branch |
Successor | Mahlon Dickerson |
15th Governor of New Hampshire From: June 5, 1823 – June 3, 1824 | |
Predecessor | Samuel Bell |
Successor | David Morril |
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Party | Jacksonian Democrat |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Levi Woodbury (December 22, 1789 – September 4, 1851) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who also served in the other two branches of government: the executive (as Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Treasury (in the cabinet)) and the legislative (as a senator from New Hampshire), as well as serving as New Hampshire's governor.[1]
He was a strong advocate of states rights, saying, "I carry with me, as a controlling principle, the proposition that state powers, state rights, and state decisions are to be upheld when the objection to them is not clear."[2]