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JAMES M. WAYNE
was born in Savannah, Georgia, around 1790. He was graduated
from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)
in 1808 and read law under three different lawyers in
Savannah, Georgia, and New Haven, Connecticut. Wayne was
admitted to the bar in 1811 and entered a law partnership
in Savannah. During the War of 1812, Wayne served with
a volunteer Georgia militia unit. He was elected to the
Georgia State Legislature in 1815 and became Mayor of
Savannah in 1817. In 1820, Wayne was elected to the Savannah
Court of Common Pleas, and he was appointed to the Superior
Court of Georgia two years later. Wayne left the Court
in 1828 and ran successfully for election to the United
States House of Representatives. He was re-elected twice
and became Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign
Relations. President Andrew Jackson nominated Wayne to
the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1835,
and the Senate confirmed the appointment two days later.
Wayne served on the Supreme Court for thirty-two years.
He died on July 5, 1867, at the age of seventy-seven.
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