Blair, John
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1732 in Williamsburg, Va. He was a member of the legislature in 1765, and on the dissolution of the house in 1769, he, with Washington and other patriots, drafted the Non-Importation Agreement.
He was elected a judge of the court of appeals, then chief justice, and in 1780 chancery judge. In 1789 he was appointed a judge of the United States supreme court, and resigned this position in 1796.
He died Aug. 31, 1800, in Williamsburg, Va.