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JOHN MCLEAN
was born in Morris County, New Jersey, on March 11, 1785.
His family soon moved to western Virginia, then to Kentucky,
and settled in Warren County, Ohio, in 1797. McLean began
his legal career in Cincinnati in 1804 by working in the
office of the clerk of Hamilton County Court of Common
Pleas and reading law in the office of a Cincinnati attorney.
He was admitted to the bar in 1807 and moved to Lebanon,
Ohio, where he combined a law practice with publication
of a weekly newspaper. Beginning in 1810, he devoted himself
fully to his law practice. McLean was appointed an examiner
in the Federal Land Office in Cincinnati in 1811. In 1812,
he was elected to the United States House of Representatives.
Re-elected two years later, he resigned in 1816 to take
a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court. In 1822, President James
Monroe appointed McLean Commissioner of the General Land
Office in Washington, D.C., and one year later McLean
was appointed Postmaster General. President Andrew Jackson
nominated McLean to the Supreme Court of the United States
on March 6, 1829. The Senate confirmed the appointment
the following day. McLean served on the Supreme Court
for nearly thirty-two years. He died on April 4, 1861,
at the age of seventy-six. |
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