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Although his periods of service in Congress and as Secretary of State were both brief, he was Chief Justice of the United States for nearly 35 years, and had a powerful influence on the development of the Supreme Court. Following is a list of persons who have held constitutional offices in all three branches of the United States federal government.
Although Jefferson managed to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1801 and thus dismissed many lower level Federalist federal judges, the effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in 1804 failed. Led by the last great Federalist, John Marshall as Chief Justice from 1801 to 1835, the Supreme Court carved out a unique and powerful role as the ...
Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives (14 C, 12 P) Federalist Party state governors of the United States (56 P) Federalist Party United States senators (11 C, 40 P)
Current members of the United States Senate; Former members of the United States Senate; Current members of the United States House of Representatives; Former members of the United States House of Representatives
The Residence Act also established Philadelphia as the federal capital until the government moved to the federal district. Congress adjourned its last meeting in Philadelphia on May 15, 1800, and the city officially ceased to be the nation's seat of government as of June 1800. [12] President John Adams moved into the White House later that year.
President Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, asked Charles Lee, a Federalist, to be appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President John Quincy Adams , a Democratic-Republican, appointed Joseph Hopkinson , a Federalist , as a U.S. federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District ...
Trump repeatedly suggested that his perceived enemies should be jailed, from the prosecutors in the Biden administration Justice Department who indicted him to members of the House select ...
In 1768, after reading law and being admitted to the bar of New York, Jay, with the money from the government, established a legal practice and worked there until he opened his own law office in 1771. [4] He was a member of the New York Committee of Correspondence in 1774 [12] and became its secretary, which was his first public role in the ...