James Iredell (1751–1799)
Iredell was a U.S. Supreme Court colleague of Bushrod Washington.
James Iredell was born on 5 October 1751 in Lewes, England. At the age of seventeen, he sailed to North Carolina to assume the post of comptroller of customs at Edenton. He read law under Samuel Johnston (1733–1816) and commenced practice in 1770. Iredell held several public offices over the next decade, including judge of the North Carolina Superior Court (1777) and state attorney general (1779–81).
"James Iredell." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310010567/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=8aa9c227. Accessed 24 Sept. 2023.
Robert M. Ireland, "Iredell, James," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Willis P. Whichard, "James Iredell: Revolutionist, Constitutionalist, Jurist," in Scott Douglas Gerber, ed., Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 198–230.
James Iredell at Federal Judicial Center.
James Iredell at Find a Grave.
Justice James Iredell at FamilySearch.