List of federal judges appointed by Abraham Lincoln
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John Jay Jackson, Jr. was appointed to what was then the Western District of Virginia - which became the District of West Virginia. He remained on the bench until 1905.
Appointed by Lincoln to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Henry Clay Caldwell was later elevated by President Benjamin Harrison to sit on the Eighth Circuit.
Following is a list of all United States federal judges appointed by President Abraham Lincoln during his presidency.[1] In total Lincoln appointed 32 federal judges, including four Associate Justices and one Chief Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, and 27 judges to the United States district courts. Lincoln appointed no judges to the United States circuit courts during his time in office.
Contents
United States Supreme Court Justices
| Justice | Seat | State | Began active service |
Ended active service |
| Salmon Portland Chase | Chief Justice | Ohio | December 6, 1864 | May 7, 1873 |
| David Davis | Seat 8 | Illinois | October 17, 1862[2] | March 4, 1877 |
| Stephen Johnson Field | Seat 9 | California | March 10, 1863 | December 1, 1897 |
| Samuel Freeman Miller | Seat 3 | Iowa | July 16, 1862 | October 13, 1890 |
| Noah Haynes Swayne | Seat 6 | Ohio | January 24, 1862 | January 24, 1881 |
District courts
| Judge | Court [Note 1] |
Began active service |
Ended active service |
| Alexander White Baldwin | D. Nev. | March 11, 1865 | November 14, 1869 |
| Bland Ballard | D. Ky. | October 16, 1861[3] | July 29, 1879 |
| Charles Linnaeus Benedict | E.D.N.Y. | March 9, 1865 | January 1, 1897 |
| Thomas Jefferson Boynton | S.D. Fla. | October 19, 1863[4] | January 1, 1870 |
| Jonathan Russell Bullock | D.R.I. | February 11, 1865 | September 15, 1869 |
| Richard Busteed | N.D. Ala. M.D. Ala. S.D. Ala. |
November 17, 1863[4] | October 20, 1874 |
| Henry Clay Caldwell | E.D. Ark. W.D. Ark. |
June 20, 1864 | March 13, 1890 March 13, 1890[5] |
| David Kellogg Cartter | D.D.C. | March 11, 1863 | April 16, 1887 |
| Mark W. Delahay | D. Kan. | October 6, 1863[6] | December 12, 1873 |
| Edward Henry Durell | E.D. La. | May 20, 1863[7] | December 4, 1874[8] |
| Richard Stockton Field | D.N.J. | January 14, 1863 | April 25, 1870 |
| George P. Fisher | D.D.C. | March 11, 1863 | May 1, 1870 |
| Philip Fraser | N.D. Fla. | July 17, 1862 | July 26, 1876 |
| Fletcher Mathews Haight | S.D. Cal. | August 5, 1861 | February 23, 1866 |
| John Jay Jackson, Jr. | W.D. Va. | August 3, 1861 | March 15, 1905[9] |
| Arnold Krekel | W.D. Mo. | March 9, 1865 | June 9, 1888 |
| George Washington Lane | N.D. Ala. M.D. Ala. S.D. Ala. |
March 28, 1861 | November 12, 1863 |
| John Lowell | D. Mass. | March 11, 1865 | January 9, 1879 |
| David McDonald | D. Ind. | December 13, 1864 | August 25, 1869 |
| Abram B. Olin | D.D.C. | March 11, 1863 | January 13, 1879 |
| Caleb Blood Smith | D. Ind. | December 22, 1862 | January 7, 1864 |
| Connally Findlay Trigg | E.D. Tenn. M.D. Tenn. W.D. Tenn. |
July 17, 1862 | April 25, 1880 April 25, 1880 June 14, 1878[10] |
| John Curtiss Underwood | E.D. Va. | March 27, 1863[11] | December 7, 1873[9] |
| Albert Smith White | D. Ind. | January 18, 1864 | September 4, 1864 |
| Archibald Williams | D. Kan. | March 12, 1861 | September 21, 1863 |
| Solomon Lewis Withey | W.D. Mich. | March 11, 1863 | April 25, 1886 |
| Andrew Wylie | D.D.C. | March 18, 1863[4] | May 1, 1885 |
Specialty courts
United States Court of Claims
| Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Casey | 1861 | 1870 |
| Ebenezer Peck | 1863 | 1878 |
| David Wilmot | 1863 | 1868 |
| Charles Cooper Nott, Sr. | 1865 | 1905 |
Notes
References
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- ↑ All information on the names, terms of service, and details of appointment of federal judges is derived from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public-domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 1, 1862, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 8, 1862, and received commission on December 8, 1862.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 9, 1861, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 22, 1862, and received commission on January 22, 1862.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 5, 1864, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 20, 1864, and received commission on January 20, 1864.
- ↑ Caldwell was appointed to both the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas; after March 3, 1871, his service in the Western District was discontinued, though he served in the Eastern District until 1890, when he was elevated to the United States Circuit Court for the Eighth Circuit.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 14, 1863, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 15, 1864, and received commission on March 15, 1864.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on February 8, 1864, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 17, 1864, and received commission on February 17, 1864.
- ↑ On July 27, 1866, the two Districts of Louisiana then existing were reunited into a single United States District Court for the District of Louisiana by 14 Stat. 300, and Durell was reassigned to this court by operation of law.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Early in the course of the American Civil War, the western portion of Virginia rejected Virginia's secession from the United States, and itself seceded from Virginia. This area largely coincided with the existing Western District of Virginia. The portion of Virginia remaining loyal to the Union became the state of West Virginia, which was admitted as a state on June 20, 1863. On June 11, 1864, by 13 Stat. 124, the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia became the United States District Court for the District of West Virginia, and those parts of the Western District that were not part of West Virginia were combined with what had previously been the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to again form a single United States District Court for the District of Virginia. John Jay Jackson, who had been appointed to the Western District of Virginia, was reassigned by operation of law to the newly formed District of West Virginia. At the same time, John Curtiss Underwood, who had been appointed to the Eastern District of Virginia, was reassigned by operation of law to the newly formed District of Virginia. On February 3, 1871, the District of Virginia was again subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts, and Underwood was reassigned to the Eastern District, until his death. On July 1, 1901, the District of West Virginia was subdivided into the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia; Jackson was reassigned to the Northern District, until his retirement.
- ↑ Trigg was appointed to the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Tennessee; after June 14, 1878, his service in the Western District was discontinued, though he served in the Eastern and Middle Districts until his death.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 5, 1864, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 25, 1864, and received commission on January 25, 1864.
