Bushrod Washington
BIRTH
Jun 5, 1762
Westmoreland County, Virginia
DEATH
November 26, 1829
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
FATHER:
John Augustine Washington
(1736-1787)
MOTHER:
Hannah Bushrod
(1738-1801)
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Washington, Bushrod
(1762-1829)
Bushrod Washington was an American attorney and politician who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829. On the Supreme Court, he was a staunch ally of Chief Justice John Marshall. Washington was a co-founder and president of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the emigration of freed slaves to Africa. The nephew of American Founding Father and President George Washington, he inherited his uncle's papers and Mount Vernon, taking possession in 1802 after the death of Martha Washington, his uncle's widow, and with Marshall's help, published a biography of the first president.
HOMES:
MUSEUM
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121
GRAVE:
MUSEUM
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121
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SISTER
Jane (Jenny) Washington
BROTHER
Corbin Washington
(1789-1854)
BROTHER
Augustine Washington Sr.
(1694-1743)
SISTER
Mary Ball Washington
(1709-1789)
WIFE
Julia Anne Blackburn
(1768-1829)
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DIED:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 26, 1829
Bushrod Washington was born on Jun 5, 1762 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Bushrod Washington with work or public activity as a judge, lawyer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Bushrod Washington died on Nov 26, 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.