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Robert Trimble

United States jurist
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Category: History & Society
Born:
1777, Augusta county, Va., U.S.
Died:
Aug. 25, 1828, Paris, Ky. (aged 51)
Title / Office:
supreme court (1826-1828), United States
Supreme Court of the United States (1826-1828), United States
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Robert Trimble (born 1777, Augusta county, Va., U.S.—died Aug. 25, 1828, Paris, Ky.) associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1826–28). Trimble grew up on the Kentucky frontier and studied law privately, being admitted to the bar in 1803. In 1807 he was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeals, but after two years he returned to private practice, declining several subsequent offers of judicial appointment. In 1813 he became a district prosecutor and in 1817 was appointed federal district court judge for Kentucky by President James Madison, and he served in that post until his appointment to ...(100 of 181 words)

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