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Was William Marbury a US President?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

No. William Marbury was one of the Plaintiffs in the case Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137 (1803). President John Adams appointed Marbury as a justice of the peace for Washington, DC, after Adams was defeated in the 1800 Presidential election by his rival, Thomas Jefferson.

Adams wanted to appoint as many members of his Federalist party to the Judicial branch as possible, but wasn't able to make the appointments until a few days before leaving office. As a result, the paperwork for some of the justices of the peace was still undelivered when Jefferson took office. Jefferson found the commissions and decided to withhold a number of them, including William Marbury's.

Marbury tried to get the Supreme Court to force Jefferson and his Secretary of State, James Madison, to put him in office, but Chief Justice John Marshall decided the Court lacked authority to do so.

The full story is much more complicated.

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