Gabriel Duvall

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Gabriel Duvall

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Term in office
November 23, 1811 – January 14, 1835
Preceded by Samuel Chase
Succeeded by Philip Pendleton Barbour
Nominated by James Madison
Born 1752
Died 1844

Gabriel Duvall (1752 - 1844) was a U.S. jurist. He was a U.S. Representative from the second district of Maryland from November 11, 1794, to March 28, 1796, Chief Justice of the General Court of Maryland from 1796 to 1802, and First Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury from 1802 through 1811. He was appointed to the United States Supreme Court to replace fellow Marylander Samuel Chase in 1811 and served until 1835, when he resigned due to deafness.

He was called the most insignificant U.S. Supreme Court justice by David P. Currie in The Most Insignificant Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry, 50 U. Chi. L. Rev. 466 (1983).

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Preceded by
John F. Mercer
U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 2nd District
1794—1796
Succeeded by
Richard Sprigg, Jr.
Preceded by
Samuel Chase
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
November 23, 1811January 14, 1835
Succeeded by
Philip Pendleton Barbour
The Marshall Court Seal of the U.S. Supreme Court
1811–1812: B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | H.B. Livingston | Th. Todd | G. Duvall
1812–1823: B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | H.B. Livingston | Th. Todd | G. Duvall | J. Story
1823–1826: B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | Th. Todd | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson
1826–1828: B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson | R. Trimble
1828–1829: B. Washington | Wm. Johnson | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson
1830–1834: Wm. Johnson | G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson | J. McLean | H. Baldwin
1835: G. Duvall | J. Story | S. Thompson | J. McLean | H. Baldwin | J.M. Wayne