Oliver Ellsworth
3rd Chief Justice of the United States
In office March 8, 1796 – December 15, 1800
Nominated by	George Washington
Preceded by	John Rutledge
Succeeded by	John Marshall
Born	April 29, 1745(1745-04-29) Windsor, Connecticut
Died	November 26, 1807 (aged 62) Windsor, Connecticut
Alma mater	College of New Jersey
Religion	Congregationalist

Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807), an American lawyer and politician, was a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, and third Chief Justice of the United States. On June 20, 1787, while at the Federal Convention, Ellsworth moved to strike the May 30, 1787 motion made by Edmund Randolph of Virginia, that asked that the government now be called the "National Government". Ellsworth moved successfully that the government continue to be called the United States Government. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 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Youth and family life

Oliver Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut, to Capt. David and Jemima Leavitt Ellsworth. He entered Yale in 1762, but transferred to the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) at the end of his second year. He continued to study theology and received his A.B. degree after 2 years. Soon afterward, however, Ellsworth turned to the law. After four years of study, he was admitted to the bar in 1771 and later became a successful lawyer. In 1772, Ellsworth married Abigail Wolcott the daughter of Abigail Abbot and William Wolcott and granddaughter of Abiah Hawley and William Wolcott of East Windsor, Connecticut. They had nine children including the twins William Walcott Ellsworth, who later became governor of Connecticut; and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, who later became the first director of the Bureau of Patents, the mayor of Hartford, and the president of Aetna Life Insurance. Motto: First in Connecticut, First for its Citizens Location in Hartford County, Connecticut Coordinates: , NECTA Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford Region Capitol Region Settled 1633 Named 1637 Government  - Type Council-manager[1]  - Town manager Peter Souza  - Town council Donald S. Trinks, Mayor; Timothy Curtis, Deputy Mayor; Robert B. Gegetskas II... Yale redirects here. ... one of the earlier names for Princeton University Trenton State College is now known as The College of New Jersey This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... A B.A. issued from the University of Tennessee. ... There are a number of settlements named Hawley: In the United Kingdom: Hawley, Hampshire Hawley, Kent In the United States: Hawley, Pennsylvania Hawley, Colorado Hawley, Minnesota Hawley, Texas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... East Windsor is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut. ... William W. Ellsworth (1791-1868) was an United States politician from Connecticut. ... Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (November 10, 1791 - December 27, 1858) was a U.S. administrator. ... Aetna, Inc. ...

Service during the Revolutionary War

From a slow start Ellsworth built up a prosperous law practice. In 1777, he became Connecticut's state attorney for Hartford County. That same year, he was chosen as one of Connecticut's representatives in the Continental Congress. He served on various committees during six annual terms until 1783. Ellsworth was also active in his state's efforts during the Revolution. As a member of the Committee of the Pay Table, he was one of the five men who supervised Connecticut's war expenditures. In 1779, he assumed greater duties as a member of the council of safety, which, with the governor, controlled all military measures for the state. During the six years he served in the Continental Congress, he was included on three standing committees, the Marine Committee, the Board of Treasury, and the Committee of Appeals, which can be described as having been the forerunner of the Federal Supreme Court. While on the Committee of Appeals, he participated in the Olmstead case that first brought the authority of state and federal courts into conflict. Hartford County is located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. ... The Continental Congress was the first national government of the United States. ... This article is about military actions only. ...

Work on the United States Constitution

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In 1787, Ellsworth joined the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia as one of the eight delegates experienced in judicial matters. Once again he represented Connecticut, and he took an active part in the proceedings beginning on June 20, when he proposed the use of the name, the United States, in identifying our nation under the authority of the Constitution. The words "United States" had already been used in the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as well as the writings of Thomas Paine, and Ellsworth wanted to sustain this emphasis on a cooperative federation rather than a single national entity. Three weeks earlier, on May 30, 1787, Edmund Randolph of Virginia moved to create a "national government" consisting of a supreme legislative, an executive and a judiciary. Ellsworth accepted the notion of a threefold division proposed by Randolph, but moved to strike the phrase "national government." From this day forward the "United States" was the official title used in the Convention to designate the government whenever it was described. The complete name, "the United States of America," was the responsibility of Gouverneur Morris when he made the final editorial changes in the Constitution. Image File history File linksMetadata OliverAbigail. ... Image File history File linksMetadata OliverAbigail. ... Ralph Earl (May 11, 1751 - August 16, 1801) was a famous American painter. ... Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy. ... A delegate is an individual (or a member of a group called a delegation) who represents the interests of a larger organization (e. ... Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Gouverneur Morris Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and was an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States. ...

Ellsworth played a major role in the passage of the Connecticut Plan. During debate on the Great Compromise, often described as the Connecticut Compromise, he joined his fellow Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman in proposing the bicameral arrangement whereby members of the Senate would be elected by state legislatures as indicated in Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution. Ellsworth's version of the compromise was adopted by the Convention, but it was much later revised by Amendment XVII to substitute a popular vote similar to what was used for the House of Representatives. The Connecticut Compromise of 1787 in the United States, later known as the Great Compromise, was struck in the creation of legislative bodies. ... Shermans marble statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol. ... In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is... Amendment XVII in the National Archives Amendment XVII (the Seventeenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution was passed by the Senate on June 12, 1911 and by the House on May 13, 1912. ... Type Bicameral Speaker of the House of Representatives House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Steny Hoyer, (D) since January 4, 2007 House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R) since January 4, 2007 Members 435 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party...

Needed to gain the passage of the Connecticut Plan was the support of the three southern states, Georgia and the two Carolinas, additional to the small state coalition of the north, so it should be no surprise that Ellsworth favored the Three-Fifths Compromise on the enumeration of slaves and opposed the abolition of the foreign [slave trade]. Stressing the fact that he had no slaves of his own, he spoke twice before the Convention, on August 21 and 22, in defense of slavery as an issue to be limited to state authority, thus permitted by the Constitution. His purpose was probably to help secure the support of the Southern States that was needed to obtain the acceptance of the Connecticut Compromise and thus the avoidance of a complete breakdown in the Convention. By cooperating with the states of Georgia and North and South Carolina regarding slavery, the northern states inclusive of Connecticut secured the needed majority to save the Convention from falling apart. The three-fifths compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States... Geographically, Old South is a subregion of the American South, differentiated from the Deep South as being the Southern States represented in the original thirteen American colonies, as well as a way of describing the former lifestyle in the Southern United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Largest metro area Charlotte metro area Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (900 km)  - % water 9. ... Official language(s) English Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Largest metro area Columbia Area  Ranked 40th  - Total 34,726 sq mi (82,965 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 260 miles (420 km)  - % water 6  - Latitude 32° 2′ N to 35° 13′ N  - Longitude 78° 32′ W to 83...

Along with James Wilson, John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, and Nathaniel Gorham, Ellsworth served on the Committee of Detail that prepared the first draft of the Constitution based on resolutions already passed by the Convention. All other deliberations of the Convention were interrupted from July 26 to August 6, 1787, while the Committee of Detail completed its task. The two preliminary drafts that have survived as well as the text of the Constitution submitted to the Convention were in the handwriting of Wilson and/or Randolph. However, Ellsworth's role in its compilation would be indicated by his 53 contributions to the Convention as a whole from August 6 to 23, when he departed from the Convention for business reasons. As tabulated by Madison in his Records, only James Madison and Gouverneur Morris spoke up more than Ellsworth during these sixteen days. For other persons named James Wilson, see James Wilson (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Governor and Chief Justice of the United States. ... Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General. ... Nathaniel Gorham (May 27, 1738–June 11, 1796) was the eighth President of the United States in Congress assembled, under the Articles of Confederation. ...

Though Ellsworth left the Convention near the end of August and did not sign the final document, he wrote the Letters of a Landholder to promote its ratification. He also played a dominant role in Connecticut's 1788 ratification convention, during which he emphasized the benefits of judicial review as a guarantee of federal sovereignty. It would seem more than a coincidence that he and Wilson, both of whom served as members of the Committee of Detail, stressed the importance of judicial review at their ratifying conventions just a year preceding its implementation with the Judiciary Act of 1789. The first page of the Judiciary Act of 1789 The United States Judiciary Act of 1789 (1 Stat. ...

Achievements as a legislator

Ellsworth served as one of Connecticut's first two United States senators in the new federal government between 1789 and 1796. During this period he played a dominant role in Senate proceedings equivalent to that of a Senate Majority Leaders in later decades. His first project was the Judiciary Act, described as Senate Bill No. 1, which supplemented Article III in the Constitution by establishing a hierarchical arrangement among state and federal courts. Ellsworth himself probably wrote Section 25, the most important component of the Judiciary Act. This gave the Federal Supreme Court the power to veto state supreme court decisions supportive of state laws in conflict with the U.S. Constitution. All state and local laws accepted by state supreme courts could be appealed to the federal Supreme Court, which was given the authority, if it chose, to deny them for being unconstitutional. State and local laws rejected by state supreme courts could not be appealed in this manner; only the laws accepted by these courts could be appealed. This seemingly modest specification provided the federal government with its only effective authority over state government at the time. In effect, judicial review took the place of Congressional Review, which Madison had unsuccessfully proposed four times at the Convention to guarantee federal sovereignty. Granting the federal government this much authority was apparently rejected because it could later be used to reject the Constitution at ratifying conventions. Finally, upon the completion of the ratifying conventions, Ellsworth was in the position to render the sovereignty of the federal government defensible, but through judicial review instead of congressional review.

Once the Judiciary Act was adopted by the Senate, Ellsworth sponsored the Senate's acceptance of the Bill of Rights promoted by Madison in the House of Representatives. Combined, Judiciary Act and Bill of Rights gave the Constitution the "teeth" that had been missing in the Articles of Confederation. Judicial Review guaranteed the federal government's sovereignty, whereas the Bill of Rights guaranteed the protection of states and citizens from the misuse of this sovereignty. The Judiciary Act and Bill of Rights thus counterbalanced each other, each guaranteeing respite from the excesses of the other. However, with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1865, seventy-five years later, the Bill of Rights was extended to all levels of government as interpreted by the judiciary. Suddenly the Supreme Court as well as the court system as a whole obtained unprecedented power at both the state and federal levels. Suddenly the Supreme Court was the final arbiter in all matters of law, inclusive of its own authority regarding individual freedoms. Needless to say, this had not been the original intention of either Madison or Ellsworth.

Ellsworth had the reputation during Washington's presidency of being totally dominant in the conduct of the Senate, completely loyal to Washington as well as Hamilton's economic program. Ellsworth's other achievements included framing the measure that admitted North Carolina to the Union, devising the non-intercourse act that forced Rhode Island to join the union, drawing up the bill to regulate the consular service, and serving on the committee that obtained the full passage of Alexander Hamilton's plan for funding the national debt and for incorporating the First Bank of the United States.

The Ellsworth Court and later life

An engraving depicting Ellsworth

In the spring of 1796, Ellsworth was appointed Chief Justice of the United States, but his contribution was brief and deservedly overshadowed by the accomplishments of his successor, John Marshall. 18th or 19th century engraving of Oliver Ellsworth File links The following pages link to this file: Oliver Ellsworth Categories: Public domain images | U.S. history images ... 18th or 19th century engraving of Oliver Ellsworth File links The following pages link to this file: Oliver Ellsworth Categories: Public domain images | U.S. history images ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  US Government Portal      The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the judicial...

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Ellsworth resigned as Chief Justice to lead a delegation to France between 1799 and 1800 in order to settle differences with Napoleon's government regarding restrictions on U.S. shipping that might otherwise have led to military conflict between the two nations. The agreement accepted by Ellsworth provoked indignation among Americans for being too generous to Napoleon, and Ellsworth came down with a severe illness resulting from his travel across the Atlantic. At the same time the Federalist party to which he belonged was defeated by Republicans led by Jefferson. As a result, Ellsworth retired from national public life upon his return to America in early 1801. He was nevertheless able to serve again on the Connecticut Governor's Council until he died in Windsor in 1807. He is buried in the cemetery of the First Church of Windsor. It is entirely a matter of speculation, but Ellsworth's conciliatory negotiations with Napoleon might have contributed to Napoleon's sudden choice three years later to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States for $15 million.

In retrospect, Ellsworth's role in helping to establish the United States as a viable sovereign nation was important but could be easily overlooked. A good part of the reason for this was that he did serve effectively as an orator but worked as much as possible behind the scenes. He was said to have been dominant in his eloquence at the January, 1788, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, but later as the de facto Senate majority leader he seems to have kept his arguments relatively few and to the point. His written prose could on occasion be tortuous, as best illustrated by the operative sentence in Section 25 of the Judiciary Act (the second of only two sentences). Over three hundred words long, this sentence is almost impossible to decipher as an explanation how state courts would be kept subordinate to federal authority. But perhaps this opacity was intentional, since the expansion of federal power specified by Section 25 was mostly overlooked in debate both in the Senate and House of Representatives despite having been the most important and potentially controversial portion of the Judiciary Act.

That Ellsworth promoted the federal government as a unified confederacy without the limitations imposed by the Articles of Confederation enhanced his popularity during the first several decades of our nation's history, especially in the South preceding the Civil War. In 1847, thirteen years before the Civil War, John Calhoun praised Ellsworth as one of three men (including Sherman and Paterson) who gave the United States "the best government instead of the worst and most intolerable on the earth." However, rapid industrialization and the centralization of our national government since the Civil War have led to the almost complete neglect of Ellsworth's pivotal role in the formation of our government. Few today know much of anything about him. The one full-length biography by William Garrott Brown, published in 1905 and reprinted in 1970, is excellent but difficult to obtain.

Ellsworth's twin sons followed their father in public service. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth became mayor of Hartford, then the first commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, and later served as president of Aetna Life Insurance Company. He was also appointed by President Jackson to supervise the so-called Trail of Tears, the transfer of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to the Oklahoma Territory that cost approximately 4,000 lives. His twin brother, William Wolcott Ellsworth, who married a daughter of Noah Webster of dictionary fame, became Governor of the State of Connecticut.

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References

• The Life of Oliver Ellsworth, William Garrott Brown, 1905--repr. by Da Capo Press, 1970
• The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787]], ed. by Max Farrand, 4 vols., Yale University Press, 1911, 1966
• James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, James Brown Scott, Oxford university Press, 1918
• The United States of America: A study in International Organization, James Brown Scott, Oxford University Press, 1920
• 1787 Constitutional Convention: The First Senate of the United States 1789-1795, Richard Streb, Bronx Historical Society, 1996

External links

• National Archives biography
• Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
• Princeton Companion: Oliver Ellsworth
• Oyez: Oliver Ellsworth
• Oliver Ellsworth at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress