John McLean
| John McLean | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office March 7, 1829 – April 4, 1861 |
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| Nominated by | Andrew Jackson |
| Preceded by | Robert Trimble |
| Succeeded by | Noah Swayne |
| United States Postmaster General | |
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In office June 26, 1823 – March 4, 1829 |
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| President |
James Monroe John Quincy Adams |
| Preceded by | Return Meigs |
| Succeeded by | William Barry |
| Commissioner of the General Land Office | |
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In office September 11, 1822 – June 26, 1823 |
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| President | James Monroe |
| Preceded by | Josiah Meigs |
| Succeeded by | George Graham |
| Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
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In office February 17, 1816 – September 11, 1822 |
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| Preceded by | William Irvin |
| Succeeded by | Charles Sherman |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 1st district |
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In office March 4, 1813 – October 8, 1816 |
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| Preceded by | Jeremiah Morrow |
| Succeeded by | William Harrison |
| Personal details | |
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March 11, 1785 Morris County, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | April 4, 1861 (aged 76) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party |
Democratic-Republican (Before 1825) National Republican (1825–1828) Democratic (1828–1831) Anti-Masonic (1831–1838) Whig (1838–1848) Free Soil (1848–1854) Republican (1854–1861) |
| Other political affiliations |
Jacksonian |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Edwards Sarah Garrard |
John McLean (March 11, 1785 – April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts. He was often discussed for the Whig and Republican nominations for President.
McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey, the son of Fergus McLean and Sophia Blackford. After living in a succession of frontier towns, Morgantown, Virginia; Nicholasville, Kentucky; and Maysville, Kentucky; in 1797 his family settled in Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio. It was here that Mclean received his formal education in the classical style and that his interest in law began to develop. Going on to graduating from Harvard in 1806. It can also be argued that his anti-slavery views also began to form at this time, given his upbringing as an evangelical Methodist with a focus on egalitarianism. His brother William was also a successful Ohio politician. His brother Finis McLean was a United States Representative from Kentucky.
He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1807. That same year he founded The Western Star, a weekly newspaper at Lebanon, the Warren County seat. In 1810 Mclean transferred ownership of the Star to his brother Nathaniel and hung up his shingle, beginning to practice law as an individual lawyer for the first time. He was elected to the U.S. House for the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1813, until he resigned in 1816 to take a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court, to which he had been elected on February 17, 1816, replacing William W. Irvin.
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