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Updated: May 28, 2025

* So called because the appointment of some of them was supposed to have taken place as late as midnight, or later, of March 3-4, 1801. The supposition, however, was without foundation. Meanwhile, late in November, 1800, Ellsworth had resigned, and Adams had begun casting about for his successor.

Edward Samuel Corwin - John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court