John Marshall was the 45, not 44, year old distant cousin of Thomas Jefferson who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and radically changed the job of the Supreme Court.
No, you may be thinking about the fourth US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, who was a distant cousin of Jefferson's.
John Adams and Jefferson didn't get along for many years.
It does not appear that Thomas Jefferson had any nieces or nephews. He had a daughter, a son in law and two grandsons. He also had an aunt and a first cousin.
President John Adams nominated his Secretary of State, John Marshall, to be Chief Justice of the United States in 1801, following Adams' defeat to rival Thomas Jefferson. Marshall was a Federalist like Adams and a distant cousin of Thomas Jefferson, with whom he had a strained relationship.Chief Justice Marshall served on the Court from 1801 until his death in 1835. He had the longest tenure of any Chief Justice, and is considered the most influential leader in Supreme Court history.
John Adams. His cousin Samuel Adams was one of the very first advocates of independence.
He was serving as minister to France.
The DeLancey family was prominent in New York. They tended to be loyalists and one was an important justice. However, be careful when researching because there are several generations of James DeLanceys including a cousin.
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Jefferson knew John Adams and Samuel Adams was the cousin to John so he probably did know him. The men who wanted revolution were a small group so they would have known each other. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin were in France together getting money for the revolution.
Thomas Jefferson married to Martha Wayles in January 1, 1772
Felix Frankfurter was an American lawyer and Supreme Court Justice who served from 1939 to 1962. He was known for his liberal and progressive legal views, and played a significant role in shaping constitutional law during his tenure on the Court.