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On February 4, 1811, Alexander Wolcott was nominated by U.S. President James Madison to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Wolcott's nomination was met with broad criticism, due to his lack of qualifying legal experience, as well as his highly partisan background, and his enforcement of the Embargo Act of 1807 and Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 as a customs collector. The nomination faced an unprecedented review by a select committee, and was considered for an unprecedentedly-lengthy period of nine days before being voted on by the Senate. Despite Madison's Democratic–Republican Party holding a supermajority in the Senate, the nomination was overwhelmingly defeated in a 9–24 vote on confirmation.
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