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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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