The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baldwin, Henry

BALDWIN, Henry, jurist, was born at New Haven, Conn., Jan. 14, 1780, half -brother to Abraham Baldwin, statesman. He was graduated from Yale college in 1797, and gaining admission to the bar, he began to practise law at Pittsburg, Pa. In 1816 he was elected a representative in the 15th Congress as a Federalist, and was reelected to the 16th and 17th congresses, resigning in 1822. In 1830 he was appointed a justice of the U. S. supreme court, and in the same year Yale college conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., Jefferson (Pa.) college giving him a like honor in 1843. He was the author of "A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Goverment of the United States," (1837). He died in Philadelphia. April 21, 1844.