WASHINGTON, BUSHROD , American jurist, nephew of George Washington, was born in Westmoreland county, Va., on June 15, 1762. He graduated in 1778 at the College of William and Mary, where he was an original member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He served in the House of Dele gates in 1787, and in the following year sat in the convention which ratified for Virginia the Federal Constitution. In 1798 he
was appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court by President John Adams. He was George Washington's literary executor, and supervised the preparation of John Mar shall's Life of Washington (5 vols., 1804-07) ; and on Mrs. Washington's death in 1802 he inherited Mt. Vernon and a part of the estate. He died in Philadelphia on Nov. 26, 1829.