Gabriel Duvall
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| Gabriel Duvall | |
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| In office November 23 1811 – January 14 1835 | |
| Nominated by | James Madison |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Chase |
| Succeeded by | Philip Pendleton Barbour |
| Born | December 6 1752 Prince Georges County, Maryland |
| Died | March 6 1844 (aged 91) Glenn Dale, Maryland |
Gabriel Duvall (December 6, 1752 - March 6, 1844) was a U.S. jurist. He was a U.S. Representative from the second district of Maryland from November 11, 1794, to March 28, 1796, Chief Justice of the General Court of Maryland from 1796 to 1802, and First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury from 1802 through 1811. He was appointed to the United States Supreme Court to replace fellow Marylander Samuel Chase in 1811 and served until 1834, when he resigned due to old age.
In the twenty-three years he sat on the Supreme Court, Duvall penned an opinion in only seventeen cases. For all of Duvall’s tenure, John Marshall presided as Chief Justice. In only two cases, does the record show the two men holding different opinions. In Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward,17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 518 (1819), Duvall offered only a brief note calling attention to French law on the irrevocability of royal charters. In Mima Queen v. Hepburn, 11 U.S. (7 Cranch) 290 (1834), Duvall would have authorized the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia to accept hearsay evidence proving the emancipation of a slave by her owner, but the rest of the Court, per the Chief Justice, decided against it.
Justice Duvall's home, Marietta House Museum, is open to the public and is operated as an historic house museum by the Prince George's County Historical Society.
[edit] External links
- Marietta House Museum, Duvall's plantation
- biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website
- Biography from OYEZ project
- The Most Insignificant Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry by David P. Currie
| Preceded by John F. Mercer | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 2nd District 1794—1796 | Succeeded by Richard Sprigg, Jr. |
| Preceded by Samuel Chase | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States November 23, 1811 – January 14, 1835 | Succeeded by Philip Pendleton Barbour |
| Image:Seal of the United States Supreme Court.png Supreme Court of the United States | |
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| The Marshall Court | |
| 1811–1812: | B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | H.B. Livingston | Th. Todd | G. Duvall |
| 1812–1823: | B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | H.B. Livingston | Th. Todd | G. Duvall | J. Story |
| 1823–1826: | B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | Th. Todd | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson |
| 1826–1828: | B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson | R. Trimble |
| 1828–1829: | B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson |
| 1830–1834: | Wm. Johnson | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson | J. McLean | H. Baldwin |
| 1835: | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson | J. McLean | H. Baldwin | J.M. Wayne |
