Samuel Nelson

Datec. 1850

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 11 3/8 × 10 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (28.9 × 25.7 × 3.5 cm) Sight: 5 1/4 × 4 in. (13.3 × 10.2 cm)

Object numberN0092.1974

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of S. Beach Cooke

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextSamuel Nelson was a judge of the sixth circuit (1823-1831); an associate justice of the state supreme court (1831-1837); chief justice of the state supreme court (1837-1845; and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1845-1872) He was one of Cooperstown's most famous residents in the nineteenth century.

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