John Marshall Small 274×320 Medium 548×640 Large 876×1024 Download Tiff Original 2054×2400 | (2.1 MB) Description John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an influential Chief Justice of the United States who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Keywords chief justice, judge, law, portrait, Supreme Court Galleries Famous People: M, US Supreme Court Justices Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 6) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)