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| | Richard Stockton |
 | | Richard's father, John, inherited "Morven," the family-seat, and was for many years chief judge of the court of common pleas of Somerset county. |
 | | They are given in full in Chief-Justice Marshall's "Life of Washington."--Their son, Richard, senator, born near Princeton, New Jersey, 17 April, 1764; died there, 7 March, 1828, was graduated at Princeton in 1779, studied law in Newark with Elias Boudinot, was admitted to the bar in 1784, and began to practise in his native place. |
 | | His vote was objected to by Charles Sumner, and on the following day, 27 March, 1866, he withdrew it, and was unseated by a vote of twenty-three to twenty-one. |
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