Chief Justice William Cushing

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Chief_Justice_William_Cushing
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Harvard_College
gptkbp:appointedBy gptkb:George_Washington
gptkbp:birthDate 1732-03-01
gptkbp:birthPlace Scituate, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
gptkbp:deathDate 1810-09-13
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Scituate,_Massachusetts,_United_States
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:William_Cushing
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Chief Justice William Cushing
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableFor longest-serving of the original Supreme Court justices
helped abolish slavery in Massachusetts
one of the original five Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:President_of_India
gptkb:judge
gptkb:lawyer
gptkbp:positionHeld gptkb:Chief_Justice_of_the_Massachusetts_Supreme_Judicial_Court
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
gptkbp:predecessor position established
gptkbp:spouse Hannah Phillips Cushing
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Joseph_Story
gptkbp:termEnd 1810
gptkbp:termStart 1789
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Quock_Walker_case
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8