Woodbury, Levi (1789-1851)
- Name:
- Woodbury, Levi (1789-1851)
- Title:
- Admitted to NH Bar, 1812
Clerk, New Hampshire State Senate, 1816
Justice, New Hampshire State Supreme Court, 1816-1823
Governor, New Hampshire, 1823-1824
United States Senator, New Hampshire, 1825-1831, 1841-1845
Secretary of the Navy, United States, 1831-1834
Secretary of the Treasury, United States, 1834-1841
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1845-1851 - Born:
- 12/22/1789
- Birthplace:
- Francestown, NH
- Died:
- 09/04/1851
- Death Location:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Residence:
- Francestown, NH 1812-1819
Portsmouth, NH 1819-1851
Washington, DC - Nationality:
- American
- Occupation:
- Politician
Lawyer - Father:
- Woodbury, Peter (1767-1834)
- Mother:
- Woodbury, Mary (1769-1839)
- Spouse:
- Eliza W. Clapp (1796-1873), June 1819
- Children:
- Charles Levi, born 1820; died 1898
Mary Elizabeth, bron 1821; died 1887
Frances Anstris, born 1823; died 1895
Virginia Lafayette, born 1824; died 1908
Ellen Carolina deQuincy, born 1828; died 1909 - Notes:
- George T. Chapman, Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, From the First Graduation in 1771 to the Present Time, With a Brief History of the Institution. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press,1867), 146.
Warren R. Cochrane and James K. Wood, History of Francestown, N.H., From Its Earliest Settlement, April, 1758 to January 1, 1891, With a Brief Genealogical Record of All the Francestown Families. (Nashua, New Hampshire: James H. Barker, 1895), 993-995.
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