THE LEVI WOODBURY

United States Destroyer Number 309, now under construction at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, is to be named in memory of the Honorable Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Navy 1831-1834.

Levi Woodbury was a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1809, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the College in 1821. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire, December 22, 1879, and died in Portsmouth, September 4, 1851. lie took highest honors at his graduation in 1809 and immediately entered the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1812 and practiced in his native town until 1816, when he was chosen clerk of the State senate. In 1816, he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of the State, and in 1819 removed to Portsmouth, where he practiced law after serving as governor of New Hampshire in 1823-24. He was speaker of the State house of representatives in 1825, and was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, serving from December 5, 1825, until March 3, 1831, when he was appointed Secretary pf the Navy, and held that office until 1834, when he was made secretary of the Treasury, serving until 1841, He was again a United States Senator from 1841 to 1845 and served as a judge of the United States Supreme Court from 1845 until his death in 1851.