Draft:John Mackall Gantt
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John Mackall Gantt (1762–1811) was a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1806 to 1811.[1]
"Son of Thomas Gantt Jr. (?-1808) and Susanna Mackall. Married Mary Sprigg, 1798".[2]
Trustee and bankruptcy commissioner for the District of Columbia before receiving an appointment to the Maryland judiciary in 1803 (Edward C. Papenfuse, Alan F. Day, David W. Jordan, and Gregory A. Stiverson, eds., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, 2 vols. [Baltimore, 1979-85], 1:344; Vol. 34:647; Vol. 39:497-8).Gantt was appointed to the court of appeals on March 27, 1806, to succeed Judge Sprigg, deceased.[3]
Gantt died in 1811.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Maryland Court of Appeals Judges, 1778–". Archives of Maryland. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
- ^ "John Mackall Gantt, MSA SC 3520-15198". msa.maryland.gov.
- ^ a b John Thomas Scharf, "Judges of the Court of Appeals", History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day (1879), p. 773.
- ^ "Founders Online: From Thomas Jefferson to John Mackall Gantt, 20 April 1805". founders.archives.gov.
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