WOODBURY, LEVI (1789-1851), American political leader, was born at Francestown, N.H., on Dec. 22, 1789. He was a judge of the superior court from 1816 to 1823. In 1823-24 he was governor, in 1825 a member and speaker of the State house of representatives, and in 1825-31 and again in 1841-45 a member of the U. S. Senate. He was secretary of the Navy in 1831-34,
secretary of the Treasury in 1834-41, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1846 until his death, Sept. 4, 1851.