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John Marshall
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  • Among the acquaintances and colleagues who march across the pages of his diary are Sam Adams (a kinsman), John Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lafayette, John Jay, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Lincoln, James Buchanan, William Lloyd Garrison, Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis and many others.†  (source)
  • I could finish my pre-legal course and go to John Marshall law school at night while I worked for him.†  (source)
  • In January, again in a private letter, came word from John Marshall by way of The Hague warning that the mission might not be received by the French Directory.†  (source)
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  • On June 17, John Marshall arrived by ship in New York, and in another two days received a hero's welcome in Philadelphia.†  (source)
  • There were some Federalists who had mixed feelings about the Sedition Act, and John Marshall was openly opposed.†  (source)
  • John Marshall had said much the same thing, and so had John Quincy in some of his correspondence with his father, but as Adams was to write, the assurances of Gerry—"my own ambassador"—were "more positive, more explicit, and decisive."†  (source)
  • Adams discharged him at once and the same day named as his new Secretary of War, Senator Samuel Dexter of Massachusetts, and as Secretary of State, John Marshall, who was now a member of the House of Representatives.†  (source)
  • By first light, June 14, he was rolling north to Quincy, leaving John Marshall to manage in his absence.†  (source)
  • To replace him Adams first turned to his old friend John Jay, but when Jay declined, he chose John Marshall.†  (source)
  • ON FRIDAY, March 4, 1825, inside the Hall of the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, John Quincy Adams took the oath of office as the sixth President of the United States, administered by Chief Justice John Marshall; and as the year proceeded in Quincy, Massachusetts, the health and physical strength of his aged father, the second President of the United States, seemed to improve rather than decline.†  (source)
  • /To antagonize/ seems to have been given currency by John Quincy Adams, /to immigrate/ by John Marshall, /to eventuate/ by Gouverneur Morris, and /to derange/ by George Washington.†  (source)
  • John Marshall wrote the Opinion of the Court for Marbury v. Madison.†
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