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{{Officeholder
|name=Nathan Clifford
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Unitarian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[James Buchanan]]
|terms=January 12, 1858 – July 25, 1881
|preceded=[[Benjamin R. Curtis]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Horace Gray]]
}}
{{Officeholder/attorneygeneral
|jurisdiction=the United States
|number=19th
|deputy=n
|president=[[James K. Polk]]
|terms=October 17, 1846 – March 17, 1848
|preceded=John Y. Mason
|former=y
|succeeded=Isaac Toucey
}}
}}
'''Nathan Clifford''' (August 18, 1803 – July 25, 1881) was an [[Attorney General of the United States]] and an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was a states-rights Democrat in the mold of [[Andrew Jackson]] who served on a Court of Republicans; as a result, many of his opinions were dissents.<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/5294/Clifford-Nathan.html|title=Nathan Clifford|language=English|work=law.jrank|format=HTML}}</ref> He wan an anti-abolishionist, who upheld a fugitive slave law in ''Ableman v. Booth''. Chief Justice [[Morrison Waite]], who Clifford briefly served with, once declared that he assigned Clifford only one of the 66 significant constitutional cases between 1874 and 1881.<ref name="jrank"/>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|waite=y|chase=y|taney=y}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clifford, Nathan}}
|name=Nathan Clifford
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Unitarian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[James Buchanan]]
|terms=January 12, 1858 – July 25, 1881
|preceded=[[Benjamin R. Curtis]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Horace Gray]]
}}
{{Officeholder/attorneygeneral
|jurisdiction=the United States
|number=19th
|deputy=n
|president=[[James K. Polk]]
|terms=October 17, 1846 – March 17, 1848
|preceded=John Y. Mason
|former=y
|succeeded=Isaac Toucey
}}
}}
'''Nathan Clifford''' (August 18, 1803 – July 25, 1881) was an [[Attorney General of the United States]] and an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was a states-rights Democrat in the mold of [[Andrew Jackson]] who served on a Court of Republicans; as a result, many of his opinions were dissents.<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/5294/Clifford-Nathan.html|title=Nathan Clifford|language=English|work=law.jrank|format=HTML}}</ref> He wan an anti-abolishionist, who upheld a fugitive slave law in ''Ableman v. Booth''. Chief Justice [[Morrison Waite]], who Clifford briefly served with, once declared that he assigned Clifford only one of the 66 significant constitutional cases between 1874 and 1881.<ref name="jrank"/>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|waite=y|chase=y|taney=y}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clifford, Nathan}}