Carroll, William T.

Born: 1802-03-02 Maryland

Died: 1863-07-13 Washington, D.C.

Flourished: Washington, D.C.

Carroll received his early education in his native state, graduating from a school in Emmitsburg at the age of twenty. He read law in Litchfield, Connecticut, earned admittance to the bar, and received appointment as law lecturer at Columbia College, Washington, DC. In January 1827, he became clerk of the United States Supreme Court, a position he held until his death.

Gravestone, Oak Hill Cemetery, North Hill, Lot 292, Carroll Family Mausoleum, Vault 14, Washington, DC; Kermit Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 159; Hampton L. Carson, The History of the Supreme Court of the United States with Biographies of all the Chief and Associate Justices (Philadelphia: P. W. Ziegler, 1904), 2:642-43.