William Tilghman
| William Tilghman | |
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| Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court | |
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In office 1806–1827 |
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| Preceded by | Edward Shippen |
| Succeeded by | John Bannister Gibson |
| Chief Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Third Circuit | |
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In office March 3, 1801 – March 8, 1802 |
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| Appointed by | John Adams |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 12, 1756 Talbot County, Maryland, British America |
| Died | April 29, 1827 (aged 70) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA) |
William Tilghman (August 12, 1756 – April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, jurist and statesman from Maryland. He served one term each as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and as a state senator, before moving in 1793 to Philadelphia, where he had gone to college. He continued to hold his property of plantation and slaves in Maryland..
After some years of private practice, he was appointed as a justice to the Philadelphia and state courts. In 1805, he was named as Chief Justice on the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, where he served from 1806 to his death in 1827. In 1811, when Tilghman ran for Governor of Pennsylvania, which had abolished slavery in 1780, he began to emancipate his slaves. He was not elected.
Born in Talbot County, Maryland, Tilghman was the nephew of Matthew Tilghman and brother of Tench Tilghman. Tilghman received an A.B. from the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania in 1772, and read law to enter the bar in 1783.
Tilghman returned to Maryland, where he was in private practice in Talbot County, Maryland from 1783 to 1788. He also had a plantation worked by slaves. He was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1788 to 1790, attending the Maryland Constitutional Convention in 1788, and serving as a presidential elector for the state in 1789. He was elected to the Maryland State Senate, serving from 1791 to 1793.
Following that service, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1793, where he practiced law privately from 1794 to 1801.
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