Alexis de Tocqueville often cited Judge Joseph Story

Joseph Story was a U. S. Supreme Court justice, appointed by President James Madison

In 1812, President James Madison appointed a new justice to the United States Supreme Court. That justice was Joseph Story. At the time that I write this, he is the youngest person ever to be nominated (let alone appointed) as a Supreme Court justice. He would influence a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln, as I show in another post. But he would also influence a young Frenchman who once visited the United States in the 1830’s. That Frenchman was Alexis de Tocqueville, who would later become famous for a work entitled “De la démocratie en Amérique” (“Democracy in America”). The book contains many citations to Judge Joseph Story.

Joseph Story, a United States Supreme Court justice (appointed by James Madison)

Abraham Lincoln recommended Joseph Story, and Jefferson Davis criticized him

Joseph Story was a U. S. Supreme Court justice, appointed by President James Madison

In 1812, President James Madison appointed a new justice to the United States Supreme Court. His name was Joseph Story, the author of a three-volume work that I would like to read someday. The work is simply called “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.” Story had been a Supreme Court justice for more than 20 years, when he published this three-volume work in 1833. He did not leave the court until his death in 1845.

Joseph Story