Robert Trimble, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Trimble

United States federal judge

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1776

Place of Birth: Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1828

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Robert Trimble (November 17, 1776 – August 25, 1828) was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, as United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1826 to his death in 1828.
During his brief Supreme Court tenure he authored several majority opinions, including the decision in Ogden v.
Saunders, which was the only majority opinion that Chief Justice John Marshall ever dissented from during his 34 years on the Court.