Henry Wheaton (1785–1848)
Bushrod Washington was an associate justice of the Supreme Court during the entirety of Wheaton's tenure as reporter.
Henry Wheaton, U.S. Supreme Court reporter and diplomat, was born on 27 November 1785 in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Rhode Island College (now Brown University), he read law and opened a practice in his hometown. After marrying his cousin Catharine Wheaton (1785–1866), Wheaton moved to New York City, where he edited the National Advocate and served on the Marine Court. In 1816 Associate Justice Joseph Story helped secure the appointment of Wheaton as the first paid reporter of Supreme Court decisions.
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"Wheaton, Henry." West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edited by Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman, 2nd ed., vol. 10, Gale, 2005, pp. 349-350. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3437704691/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=689b2533. Accessed 15 Dec. 2023.
Craig Joyce, "Wheaton, Henry," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005).
"Henry Wheaton to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1810," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-03-02-0018. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 46–47.]
Henry Wheaton at Find a Grave.
Henry Wheaton at FamilySearch.