Smith Thompson

1768–1843 · Amenia, NY

Judicial Service

CourtTitleAppointed ByCommissionedTermination
Supreme Court of the United StatesAssociate JusticeJames Monroe (Jeffersonian Republican)Dec 9, 1823Death, Dec 18, 1843

Education

  • College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), 1788
  • Read law, 1792

Professional Career

Private practice, Troy, New York, 1792-1793; Private practice, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1793-1802; State assemblyman, New York, 1800; Delegate, New York constitutional convention, 1801; Justice, Supreme Court of Judicature of New York, 1802-1818; chief justice, 1814-1818; Secretary of the U.S. Navy, 1818-1823

Opinions on This Site

54 opinions from 1813 to 1843

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