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{{Officeholder
|name=Robert Trimble
|image=
|party=
|spouse=Nancy Timberlake
|religion=[[Protestant]]
|offices=
	{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
	|role=Associate
	|nominator=[[John Quincy Adams]]
	|terms=May 9, 1826 – August 25, 1828
	|preceded=[[Thomas Todd]]
	|former=y
	|succeeded=[[John McLean]]
	}}
}}
'''Robert Trimble''' (November 17, 1776 – August 25, 1828) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. Trimble wrote the opinion for ''Ogden v. Sanders'' - ruled that a state bankruptcy law that applied to debts incurred after the passage of the statute did not violate the [[Contract Clause]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/10914/Trimble-Robert.html|title=Robert Trimble - Kentucky, Court, Marshall, Nationalist, Law, and District|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref> This was the only opinion that [[Chief Justice]] [[John Marshall]] dissented from.

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