Short biography of john marshall

John Marshall was born on September 24, 1755 in Germantown, Virginia. He served first as lieutenant, and after July, 1778, as captain in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, spending the winter of 1777-1778 with the troops in Valley Forge.

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In 1781, he resigned his military commission, studied law, and set up his law practice in Virginia, in Fauquier County and later in Richmond.

In 1786, he won an an important legal case.

He thereafter maintained leadership of the bar of Virginia and was a member of the Virginia assembly in 1782-91 and 1795-1797. In 1788, he took a leading part in the Virginia convention called to act on the proposed Constitution of the United States.

Short biography of john marshall

In 1795 he was offered the attorney-generalship by Washington and the position of the Minister to France in 1796, declining both offers.

He did spend the autumn and winter of 1797-98 in France. Marshall, along with Charles Cotesworth Pinc