BADGER, George E.; was born in the town of Newbern, North Carolina, in 1795; graduated at Yale College in 1813; studied and practiced law; was elected to the Legislature in 1816; in 1820 was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court, which position he resigned in 1825; was appointed Secretary of the Navy, by President Harrison, in 1841; was elected a Senator in Congress in 1846, and re-elected in 1849 for a term of six years, serving on the Committees on Military and Naval Affairs; was subsequently wholly devoted to the practice of his profession, visiting Washington occasionally to argue cases in the Supreme Court of the United States; died at Raleigh, North Carolina, May 11, 1866.
(Source: Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States) |
