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Nathan Clifford

associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Born:
August 18, 1803, Rumney, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died:
July 25, 1881, Cornish, Maine (aged 77)

Nathan Clifford (born August 18, 1803, Rumney, New Hampshire, U.S.—died July 25, 1881, Cornish, Maine) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1858–81). Admitted to the bar in 1827, Clifford was elected to the Maine legislature in 1830 and became an eloquent exponent of Jacksonian principles. He served four terms, the last two as speaker. In 1834 he was appointed state attorney general and in 1839 elected to the U.S. Congress. He was named attorney general by Pres. James K. Polk in 1846 and served as his special commissioner to Mexico to arrange the Treaty of Guadalupe ...(100 of 230 words)

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