Richard Rush was United States Attorney General under James Madison and United States Secretary of the Treasury under John Quincy Adams as well as John Quincy Adams running mate when he ran for re-election on the National Republican ticket in 1828. Rush also served as United States minister to England and France at various times. Rush was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the second son of Benjamin Rush and Julia Rush. He entered the College of New Jersey at the age of 14, and graduated in 1797 as the youngest member of his class. He was admitted to the bar in 1800, when he was... barely 20 years old, and studied law at the office of William Draper Lewis. Rush married Catherine Eliza Murray on August 29, 1809. They were the parents of ten children, of whom three sons and two daughters survived him.
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