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Nelson (SAMUEL an American jurist born)

SAMUEL, an American jurist; born in Hebron, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1792; was graduated at Middlebury College in 1813; and in 1817 was admitted to the bar of Madison, N. Y. In 1820 he was presidential elector; and three years later was appointed circuit judge, which post he held till 1831, when he became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York. In 1837 he was raised to the chief justiceship. In 1845 President Tyler appointed him to succeed Judge Smith-Thompson as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1873.