John McLean Sr.
Born: March 11, 1785
Birthplace: Morris County, New Jersey
Father: Fergus McLean 1746 – 1837
(Buried: Old School Baptist Church Cemetery, Ridgeville, Ohio)
Mother: Sophia Blackford 1755 – 1839
(Buried: Old School Baptist Church Cemetery, Ridgeville, Ohio)
1st Wife: Rebecca Edwards 1786 – 1841
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Married: March 29, 1807 in Lebanon, Ohio
2nd Wife: Sarah Bella Ludlow Garrard 1802 – 1882
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Married: March 2, 1843 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Children:
Arabella E. McLean Weed 1808 – 1833
(Buried: Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)
Eveline Aurilla McLean Taylor 1809 – 1887
(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)
Sarah Ann McLean Hayward 1813 – 1840
(Buried: Central Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts)
John McLean Jr. 1815 – 1872
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Brig. General Nathaniel Collins McLean 1815 – 1905
(Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Bellport, New York)
William M. McLean 1821 – 1829
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Ludlow McLean 1846 – 1846
(Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Political Party:
Before – 1825: Member of Democratic – Republican Political Party
1825 – 1828: Member of National Republican Political Party
1828 – 1831: Member of Democratic Political Party
1831 – 1838: Member of Anti – Masonic Political Party
1838 – 1848: Member of Whig Political Party
1848 – 1854: Member of Free – Soil Political Party
1854 – 1861: Member of Republican Political Party
Antebellum Events:
1807 – 1812: Founder and Editor of The Western Star Newspaper
1807 – 1812: Attorney in Lebanon, Ohio
1811 – 1812: Examiner for U.S. Congressional Land Office
1813 – 1816: United States Congressman from Ohio
1813 – 1815: Ranking Member of House Public Lands Committee
1815 – 1816: House Chairman of House Accounts Committee
1816 – 1822: Justice of Ohio State Supreme Court
1822 – 1823: Commissioner of United States Land Office
1823 – 1829: United States Postmaster General, Postal Department
Declined Offices of Secretary of War, and Secretary of Navy
1829 – 1861: Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court
1834: Writer of Court Opinion in Case of Wheaton V. Peters
1841: Showed a tendency for economic Nationalism.
1841: Side with the majority in Case of United States VS. The Amistad
1842: Dissented in the Supreme Court Case Prigg V. Pennsylvania
1848: Received 2 votes for the Whig Party Presidential Nomination.
1849: Showed his support for Nationalism in Passenger Cases.
1856: Ran 2nd for the Republican Party Presidential Nomination.
1857: Dissented in the Supreme Court Case Dredd Scott V. Sanford
1860: Received 12 votes for the Republican Party Nomination.
1860: Received 19 votes for Constitutional Union Nomination.
Died: April 4, 1861
Place of Death: Cincinnati, Ohio
Age at time of Death: 76 years old
Burial Place: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
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