William Cushing (1732–1810)
William Cushing was a U.S. Supreme Court colleague of Bushrod Washington.
William Cushing, one of the first five associate justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, was born on 1 March 1732 in Scituate, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1751 and received M.A. degrees from Yale and Harvard in 1753 and 1754, respectively. Following admission to the Boston bar in 1755, he practiced law in Scituate and served as justice of the peace and judge of probates in what is now Dresden, Maine. In 1772 Cushing replaced his father as an associate justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts.
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Scott Douglas Gerber, "Deconstructing William Cushing," in Gerber, ed., Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 97–125.
David R. Warrington, "Cushing, William," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005).
William Cushing at Federal Judicial Center.
William Cushing at Find a Grave.
William Cushing at FamilySearch.