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{{Officeholder
|name=John McLean
|image=
|party=[[Democratic-Republican]], Jacksonian, National Republican, Anti-Masonic, [[Republican]]
|spouse=Rebecca E. Edwards McLean<br/>Sarah Bella Ludlow Garrard McLean
|religion=[[Methodist]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Andrew Jackson]]
|terms=March 7, 1829 – April 4, 1861
|preceded=[[Robert Trimble]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Noah Haynes Swayne]]
}}
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=6th United States Postmaster General
|terms=June 26, 1823 – March 4, 1829
|preceded=Return J. Meigs, Jr.
|succeeded=William T. Barry
}}
}}
'''John McLean''' was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. McLean notably dissented from ''[[Dred Scott v. Sanford]]''.
{{QuoteBox2|quote=“In the [Dred Scott v. Sanford] argument, it was said that a colored citizen would not be an agreeable member of society. This is more a matter of taste than law ... [for] under the late treaty with [[Mexico]] we made citizens of all grades, combinations and colors.”|source=John McLean|align=left|width=300px}}
McLean wrote an important majority opinion concerning [[public domain]] in ''Wheaton v. Peters''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/8514/McLean-John.html|format=HTML|title=John McLean|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|marshall=y|taney=y}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:McLean, John}}
|name=John McLean
|image=
|party=[[Democratic-Republican]], Jacksonian, National Republican, Anti-Masonic, [[Republican]]
|spouse=Rebecca E. Edwards McLean<br/>Sarah Bella Ludlow Garrard McLean
|religion=[[Methodist]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Andrew Jackson]]
|terms=March 7, 1829 – April 4, 1861
|preceded=[[Robert Trimble]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Noah Haynes Swayne]]
}}
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=6th United States Postmaster General
|terms=June 26, 1823 – March 4, 1829
|preceded=Return J. Meigs, Jr.
|succeeded=William T. Barry
}}
}}
'''John McLean''' was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. McLean notably dissented from ''[[Dred Scott v. Sanford]]''.
{{QuoteBox2|quote=“In the [Dred Scott v. Sanford] argument, it was said that a colored citizen would not be an agreeable member of society. This is more a matter of taste than law ... [for] under the late treaty with [[Mexico]] we made citizens of all grades, combinations and colors.”|source=John McLean|align=left|width=300px}}
McLean wrote an important majority opinion concerning [[public domain]] in ''Wheaton v. Peters''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/8514/McLean-John.html|format=HTML|title=John McLean|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|marshall=y|taney=y}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:McLean, John}}