BLAIR, JOHN
\blˈe͡ə], \blˈeə], \b_l_ˈeə]\
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(1732-1800), of Virginia, jurist, became a Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1777 and afterward Chief Justice; in 1780 Judge of the High Court of Chancery. He was a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to 1796.
By John Franklin Jameson
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