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11 & [1, blank] pages; Stitched, as issued (never bound into a volume). Although largely forgotten today, Levi Woodbury [1789-1851] had a remarkably varied career in state and federal government of his time. Woodbury served as a member of the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, as a state legislator and later, U.S. Senator, as Governor of New Hampshire, and, finally, as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is one of only three men to have served in all three branches of Federal Government and as Governor of one the States -- (the others were Salmon P. Chase and James F. Byrnes). Woodbury had served a term in the U.S. Senate, and had been elected to a seat in the New Hampshire State Senate, when he as appointed United States Secretary of the Navy under President Andrew Jackson, serving from 1831 to 1834. Woodbury then served as Secretary of the Treasury under Jackson and Martin Van Buren from 1834 to 1841. Following Martin Van Buren's loss in the election of 1840, Woodbury served again as Senator from New Hampshire from 1841 to 1845, and was once again serving in that office when Andrew Jackson died, prompting Woodbury to write and deliver this elegant eulogy of the 7th President during the summer of 1845. A few weeks later, President James K. Polk named Levi Woodbury to the U. S. Supreme Court, in a recess appointment to fill the vacated seat of the late Justie Joseph Story. Formally nominated on December 23, 1845, Woodbury was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 3, 1846, and received his commission as Associate Justice that same day. Although there was serious talk of Woodbury as a Presidential candidate in 1848, he remained in the Supreme Court until his death in September, 1851. As usual for lawyers in his time, Woodbury read for the law before being admitted to the New Hampshire bar. But in his preparations, Woodbury (a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College) briefly attented Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut during a part of 1809. Levi Woodbury thus became the first Supreme Court Justice to have attended law school. His eulogy of Andrew Jackson is now scarce -- see OCLC Number: 11557084 -- [Three locations only: LC; Pennsylvania State Library; Dartmouth].
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