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WOODBURY, LEVI (1789—1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 790 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WOODBURY, See also:LEVI (1789—1851) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at Francestown, New See also:Hampshire, on the 22nd of See also:December 1789. He graduated from See also:Dartmouth See also:College in 18o9, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1812, and was a See also:judge of the See also:superior See also:court from 1816 to 1823. In 1823—1824 he was See also:governor of the See also:state, in 1825 was a member and See also:speaker of the state See also:House of Representatives, and in 1825—1831 and again in 1841—1845 was a member of the U.S. See also:Senate. He was secretary of the See also:navy in 1831—1834, secretary of the See also:treasury in 1834—1841, and See also:associate See also:justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1846 until his See also:death, at See also:Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 4th of See also:September 1851. From about 1825 to 1845 Woodbury was the undisputed leader of the Jacksonian See also:Democracy in New See also:England. See his Writings, Political, Judicial and See also:Literary (3 vols., See also:Boston, 1852), edited by See also:Nahum Capen; and an See also:article in the New England See also:Magazine, new See also:series, See also:xxxvii. p. 658 (See also:February 1908).

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