Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Vol. 4: In the Years 1807, and 1808 (Classic Reprint)
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William Cranch was an American jurist. He served as a Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of the District of Columbia from 1801 to 1806. He was Chief Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of the District of Columbia from 1806 to 1855.
Background
William Cranch was born on July 17, 1769 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States. He was a grandson of Richard Cranch, who coming from Kingbridge, Devonshire, England, settled at Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1720. The latter’s son, Richard, was a member of the Massachusetts legislature and judge of the court of common pleas. He married Mary, daughter of the Reverend William Smith of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and sister of Abigail Adams, wife of the future president. This connection had an important influence on William’s future career.
Education
William was educated privately at Haverhill. He entered Harvard in February 1784, and graduated with honors in 1787 with John Quincy Adams being a class-mate.
He studied law at Boston and in July 1790 was admitted to practise.
Career
About 1790 Cranch opened a law office in Braintree, and then he moved after a year to Haverhill. The following year he went to Washington, D. C. , as agent for a real-estate firm which had made large speculative investments in that city on the strength of its selection as the federal capital. The venture, however, was a disastrous failure, and Cranch himself became involved financially.
In 1800 President Adams appointed him a commissioner of public buildings of the District of Columbia, and when, February 27, 1801, the United States circuit court of the District of Columbia was established, he was nominated junior assistant judge by the President, commencing an association with that court which lasted for the unprecedented term of fifty-four years.
In 1802 he became reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States, and published Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States 1801-1815 (9 vols. , 1804 - 1817). In 1805, President Jefferson appointed Cranch chief justice of the district court, much to the general astonishment, since he was a Federalist in politics, and his uncle John Adams was the President’s political opponent. He remained chief justice for fifty years.
During its earlier years the business of the district court had been light, but additional jurisdiction in admiralty and on appeal from the Commissioner of Patents was conferred upon it, and the volume of its work steadily increased. Cranch’s opinions were distinguished for their accuracy and logic. During the whole course of his judicial career only two of his decisions were reversed on appeal. An outstanding case before him was U. S. vs. Bolivian & Swartwout, 1 Cranch ( U. S. ) 379, where, resisting presidential pressure and popular clamor, he held the arrest of Aaron Burr’s accomplices unjustifiable, and was sustained by the United States Supreme Court.
He contributed occasional papers and articles to local periodicals on matters of public interest, and in 1817 delivered before the Columbian Institute a lecture upon his uncle, published as Memoir of the Life, Character and Writings of John Adams (1827). He was compelled in 1817, by pressure of judicial work, to discontinue his Supreme Court Reports, but in his later years he assembled the decisions of his own court, which had theretofore existed only in manuscript, and published them as Reports of Cases Civil and Criminal in the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia from 1801 to 1841, in six volumes (1852 - 1853).
The United States Government published a collection of his Decisions in Cases of Appeal from the Commissioner of Patents 1841-1847. The authorship of An Examination of the President’s Reply to the Remonstrance, signed Lucius Junius Brutus (New York, 1801), relating to President Jefferson’s course in removing Federalists from office to make way for Republicans, has been attributed to him. He died in Washington, in his eighty-seventh year.