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| | John Marshall |
 | | The American jurist John Marshall, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born on the 24th of September 1755 at Germantown (now Midland), in what four years later became Fauquier county, Virginia. |
 | | John Jay, the first chief-justice, who had resigned in 1795, had just declined a reappointment to the Chief Justiceship on the ground that he had left the bench perfectly convinced that the court would never acquire proper weight and dignity, its organization being fatally defective. |
 | | Judge Story tells us: "That which, in a just sense, was his highest glory, was the purity, affectionateness, liberality and devotedness of his domestic life." For the first thirty years of his Chief Justiceship his life was a singularly happy one. |
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