Story, Joseph, 1776 - 1845

Joseph Story (1776-1845)  was a noted jurist from Marblehead, Massachusetts.  After graduation from Harvard in 1798, he opened a practice at Salem and became a prominent Jeffersonian Republican.  Story served in the Massachusetts legislature and in the U.S. House of Representatives.  He was appointed to Chief Justice Marshall's U.S. Supreme Court in 1811, where in 1831, he wrote a dissent in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, holding that in federal lawsuits, the tribe's land should be considered a foreign nation.  Story served in other public positions during his tenure on the Court. From 1815 to 1835, he was the president of the Merchant's Bank of Salem; from 1818 to 1830, he served as the vice president of the Salem Savings Bank.  In 1829, he became a law professor at Harvard.  ANB. Daguerreotype from the studio of Mathew B. Brady. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-110196), ANB