List of federal judges appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes
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President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Hayes' most notable judicial appointment was Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.
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Hoyt Henry Wheeler, highly regarded as a Vermont district court judge, was the longest-serving Hayes appointee.
Following is a list of all United States federal judges appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes during his presidency.[1] In total Hayes made twenty-two appointments, including two Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, four judges to the United States circuit courts, and sixteen judges to the United States district courts.
Contents
United States Supreme Court Justices
| Justice | Seat | State | Began active service |
Ended active service |
| John Marshall Harlan | Seat 8 | Kentucky | November 29, 1877 | October 14, 1911 |
| William Burnham Woods | Seat 1 | Ohio[2] | December 21, 1880 | May 14, 1887 |
Hayes also nominated Stanley Matthews to the Supreme Court, but the United States Senate did not act on the nomination; Matthews was renominated by Hayes' successor, James A. Garfield, and was confirmed.
Circuit Courts
| Judge | Circuit | Began active service |
Ended active service |
| John Baxter | Sixth | December 13, 1877 | April 2, 1886 |
| Samuel M. Blatchford | Second | March 4, 1878 | March 22, 1882 |
| John Lowell | First | December 18, 1878 | May 1, 1884 |
| George Washington McCrary | Eighth | December 9, 1879 | March 18, 1884 |
District courts
| Judge | Court [Note 1] |
Began active service |
Ended active service |
| Marcus Wilson Acheson | W.D. Pa. | January 14, 1880 | February 9, 1891 |
| John Watson Barr | D. Ky. | April 16, 1880 | February 21, 1899 |
| Romanzo Bunn | W.D. Wis. | October 30, 1877 | January 9, 1905 |
| William Butler | E.D. Pa. | February 19, 1879 | January 31, 1899 |
| William Gardner Choate | S.D.N.Y. | March 25, 1878 | June 1, 1881 |
| Walter Smith Cox | D.D.C. | March 1, 1879 | July 1, 1899 |
| Alexander Burton Hagner | D.D.C. | January 21, 1879 | June 1, 1903 |
| Eli Shelby Hammond | W.D. Tenn. | June 17, 1878 | December 17, 1904 |
| William Hercules Hays | D. Ky. | September 6, 1879[3] | March 7, 1880 |
| Charles Pinckney James | D.D.C. | July 24, 1879[4] | December 1, 1892 |
| David M. Key | M.D. Tenn. E.D. Tenn. |
May 27, 1880 | January 21, 1895 |
| Andrew Phelps McCormick | N.D. Tex. | April 10, 1879 | March 22, 1892 |
| Thomas John Morris | D. Md. | July 1, 1879 | June 6, 1912 |
| Thomas Leverett Nelson | D. Mass. | January 10, 1879 | November 21, 1897 |
| Ezekiel B. Turner | W.D. Tex. | November 18, 1880[5] | June 2, 1888 |
| Hoyt Henry Wheeler | D. Vt. | March 16, 1877 | September 30, 1906 |
Specialty courts
United States Court of Claims
| Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
|---|---|---|
| John Chandler Bancroft Davis | 1877 | 1881[6] |
| William H. Hunt | 1878 | 1881 |
Notes
References
- General
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- Specific
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ At the time of his nomination, Woods had lived in Alabama for over a decade; however, the nomination was successful in part because he was perceived as a Northerner.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 1, 1879, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 10, 1879, and received commission on December 10, 1879.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 1, 1879, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 10, 1879, and received commission on December 10, 1879.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 14, 1880, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20, 1880, and received commission on December 20, 1880.
- ↑ Davis resigned from the Court of Claims, and was re-appointed the following year by Chester A. Arthur.
