Andrew Gordon Magrath

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the District of South Carolina

Years in office: 1856 - 1860

Education

Bachelor's

South Carolina College, 1831

Law

Harvard Law School, Read Law, 1835

Personal

Birthplace

Charleston, SC

Andrew Gordon Magrath (1813-1893) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the District of South Carolina.^[1]

He was nominated by PresidentFranklin Pierce on May 9, 1856. He was confirmed by the Senate onMay 12, 1856, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onNovember 7, 1860.^[1] Magrath was succeeded in this position byGeorge Seabrook Bryan.

Early life and education

• Harvard Law School
• South Carolina College, A.B., 1831
• Read law, 1835^[1]

Professional career

• Private practice, Charleston, South Carolina, 1835-1839
• Member, South Carolina House of Representatives, 1840
• Private practice, Charleston, South Carolina, 1841
• Member, South Carolina House of Representatives,1842
• Private practice, Charleston, South Carolina, 1843-1856
• Secretary of state, South Carolina, 1860-1861
• Judge, District Court of South Carolina, Confederate States of America, 1861-1864
• State Governor, South Carolina, 1864-1865
• Private practice, Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1893^[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

District of South Carolina

Magrath was nominated by PresidentFranklin Pierce on May 9, 1856. He was confirmed by the Senate onMay 12, 1856, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onNovember 7, 1860.^[1] Magrath was succeeded in this position byGeorge Seabrook Bryan.

External links

• Biography from theSouth Carolina Encyclopedia.
• Judge Magrath's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byFranklin Pierce
Pierce	Blackford •Campbell •Dunlop •DuVal •John James Gilchrist •Giles •Humphreys •Ingersoll •Love •Magrath •McAllister •McIntosh •Merrick •Ogier •Scarburgh •Smalley •Samuel Treat •Samuel Hubbel Treat •Willson

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Active judges	Chief Judge: Timothy M. Cain  •  David Norton (South Carolina judge)  •  Bruce Hendricks  •  Richard Mark Gergel  •  Mary Geiger Lewis  •  Jacquelyn Austin  •  Donald Coggins Jr.  •  Sherri Lydon  •  Joseph Dawson (South Carolina)
Senior judges	Joseph Anderson  •  Henry Herlong  •  Cameron Currie  •  Terry Wooten  •  Robert Harwell  •
Magistrate judges	Robert Buchanan  •  Paige Jones Gossett  •  Thomas Rogers  •  Shiva Hodges  •  Kevin McDonald (South Carolina)  •  Kaymani West  •  Mary Gordon Baker  •  Molly Cherry  •
Former Article III judges	Thomas Bee  •  William Drayton  •  John Drayton  •  Thomas Lee  •  Robert Budd Gilchrist  •  Andrew Gordon Magrath  •  George Seabrook Bryan  •  William Hiram Brawley  •  Clyde Hamilton  •  William Traxler  •  Dennis Shedd  •  Charles Henry Simonton  •  Henry Augustus Middleton Smith  •  Joseph Travis Johnson  •  George Anderson  •  Patrick Duffy  •  Margaret Seymour  •  Henry Floyd  •  Henry Hitt Watkins  •  Ernest Ford Cochran  •  Robert Chapman  •  John Lyles Glenn  •  Francis Kerschner Myers  •  Charles Wyche  •  Falcon Hawkins  •  Robert Hemphill  •  Donald S. Russell  •  Charles Simons  •  Charles Weston Houck  •  Matthew Perry  •  George Timmerman  •  Julius Waring  •  William Walter Wilkins  •  Ashton Williams  •  J. Michelle Childs  •  James Robert Martin, Jr.  •  A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr.  •
Former Chief judges	David Norton (South Carolina judge)  •  Joseph Anderson  •  Margaret Seymour  •  Terry Wooten  •  Robert Harwell  •  Falcon Hawkins  •  Robert Hemphill  •  Charles Simons  •  Solomon Blatt  •  Charles Weston Houck  •  James Robert Martin, Jr.  •