Levi Woodbury

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
Information

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]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ WOODBURY, Levi, (1789 - 1851) (English). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. The U.S. Government.
2. ↑ Levi Woodbury - Court, Hampshire, Served, Rights, Justice, and Decisions (English). law.jrank.

The U.S. Supreme Court

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's Court (1836–1864)
| 1836–1837  |  Joseph Story | Smith Thompson | John McLean | Henry Baldwin | James M. Wayne | Philip P. Barbour

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1837–1838  |  Joseph Story | Smith Thompson | John McLean | Henry Baldwin | James M. Wayne | Philip P. Barbour | John Catron
1838–1841  |  Joseph Story | Smith Thompson | John McLean | Henry Baldwin | James M. Wayne | Philip P. Barbour | John Catron | John McKinley
1842–1843  |  Joseph Story | Smith Thompson | John McLean | Henry Baldwin | James M. Wayne | John Catron | John McKinley | Peter V. Daniel
1843–1844  |  Joseph Story | John McLean | Henry Baldwin | James M. Wayne | John Catron | John McKinley | Peter V. Daniel
1845–1846  |  John McLean | James M. Wayne | John Catron | John McKinley | Peter V. Daniel | Samuel Nelson | Levi Woodbury
1846–1851  |  John McLean | James M. Wayne | John Catron | John McKinley | Peter V. Daniel | Samuel Nelson | Levi Woodbury | Robert C. Grier
1851–1852  |  John McLean | James M. Wayne | John Catron | John McKinley | Peter V. Daniel | Samuel Nelson | Robert C. Grier | Benjamin R. Curtis
1853–1857  |  John McLean | James M. Wayne | John Catron | Peter V. Daniel | Samuel Nelson | Robert C. Grier | Benjamin R. Curtis | John A. Campbell
1858–1860  |  John McLean | James M. Wayne | John Catron | Peter V. Daniel | Samuel Nelson | Robert C. Grier | John A. Campbell | Nathan Clifford
1860–1861  |  John McLean | James M. Wayne | John Catron | Samuel Nelson | Robert C. Grier | John A. Campbell | Nathan Clifford
1862–1863  |  James M. Wayne | John Catron | Samuel Nelson | Robert C. Grier | Nathan Clifford | Noah H. Swayne | Samuel F. Miller | David Davis
1863–1864  |  James M. Wayne | John Catron | Samuel Nelson | Robert C. Grier | Nathan Clifford | Noah H. Swayne | Samuel F. Miller | David Davis | Stephen Johnson Field