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John McLean Sr.

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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)
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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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