Gabriel Duvall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gabriel Duvall

United States federal judge

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1752

Place of Birth: Prince George's County, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 06-Mar-1844

Profession: judge, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gabriel Duvall (December 6, 1752 – March 6, 1844) was an American politician and jurist.
Duvall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1835, during the Marshall Court and early-Taney Court eras.
Previously, Duvall was the Comptroller of the Treasury, a Maryland state court judge, a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from Maryland, and a Maryland state legislator. Whether Duvall is deserving of the title of "the most insignificant" justice in the history of the U.S.
Supreme Court has been the subject of much academic interest, most notably a debate between University of Chicago Law Professors David P.
Currie and (now-Judge) Frank H.
Easterbrook in 1983.
Currie argued that "impartial examination of Duvall's performance reveals to even the uninitiated observer that he achieved an enviable standard of insignificance against which all other justices must be measured." Easterbrook responded that Currie's analysis lacked "serious consideration of candidates so shrouded in obscurity that they escaped proper attention even in a contest of insignificance," and concluded that Duvall's colleague, Justice Thomas Todd, was even more insignificant.