Joseph Story Writings and Biography

Story, Joseph; 1779-1845; law professor, jurist, statesman; member of Mass. legislature, 1805 and in 1811--Speaker of the House; member of Congress 1808-1809; member of U.S. Supreme Court 1811 to his death; simultaneously member of Law Faculty of Harvard University, 1829 to death; author of celebrated Commentaries on the Constitution of the U.S., 1833.

Biographical data courtesy of The American Ideal of 1776: 12 Basic American Principles.