Henry Williams Blodgett

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Years in office: 1870 - 1892

Education

Law

Read law, 1844

Personal

Birthplace

Massachusetts

Henry Williams Blodgett (1821-1905) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

He was nominated by PresidentUlysses Grant on January 10, 1870. He was confirmed by the Senate onJanuary 11, 1870, and received commission that same day. He retired onDecember 5, 1892.^[1] Blodgett was succeeded in this position byPeter Stenger Grosscup. Blodgett passed away on February 9, 1905.

Early life and education

• Read law, 1844^[1]

Professional career

• Private practice, Waukegan, Illinois, 1845-1869
• Illinois state representative, 1852-1854
• Illinois state senator, 1858-1862
• U.S. counsel before the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration for settlement of differences between the U.S. and Great Britain involving fur seal fisheries in the Bering Sea, 1892-1893^[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Northern District of Illinois

Blodgett was nominated by PresidentUlysses Grant on January 10, 1870. He was confirmed by the Senate onJanuary 11, 1870, and received commission that same day. He retired onDecember 5, 1892.^[1] Blodgett was succeeded in this position byPeter Stenger Grosscup.

External links

• Judge Williams's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byUlysses Grant
1869	Dillon •Drummond •Gresham •Hillyer •McKennan •Shepley •Woodruff •Woods
1870	Blodgett •Bond •Bradley •Charles Daniel Drake •Emmons •Hopkins •Humphreys •Knowles •Longyear •MacArthur •Nixon •Sawyer •Strong •Winch
1871	Bradford •McKinney •Rives •Story •Swing
1872	Dick •Hunt •Locke •Morrill
1873	Howe •Shipman •Welker
1874	Foster •Hughes •Richarson •Waite •Wallace
1875	Brown •Bruce •Dyer •Johnson •Parker
1876 -77	Billings •Hallett •Ketcham •Settle

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Active judges	Chief Judge: Virginia Kendall  •  Robert Dow  •  Sharon Coleman  •  Edmond E. Chang  •  Jorge L. Alonso  •  Franklin U. Valderrama  •  John Tharp, Jr.  •  Mary Rowland  •  Sara Lee Ellis  •  Andrea R. Wood  •  Manish Shah  •  Iain D. Johnston  •  John Robert Blakey  •  LaShonda A. Hunt  •  Martha Pacold  •  Steven Seeger  •  John Kness  •  Jeffrey Cummings  •  Sunil Harjani  •  Lindsay Jenkins  •  Jeremy Daniel  •  Georgia Alexakis  •  April Perry
Senior judges	Marvin Aspen  •  Elaine Bucklo  •  Suzanne Conlon  •  Robert Gettleman  •  Joan Gottschall  •  Ronald Guzman  •  Frederick Kapala  •  Matthew Kennelly  •  Charles Kocoras  •  Joan Lefkow  •  George Marovich  •  Charles Norgle  •  Rebecca Pallmeyer  •  Philip Reinhard  •  James Zagel  •  Thomas M. Durkin  •
Magistrate judges	Jeffrey Cole  •  Susan Cox  •  Maria Valdez  •  Sheila Finnegan  •  Jeffrey Gilbert  •  Young Kim (Illinois)  •  Daniel G. Martin  •  David Weisman  •  Gabriel Fuentes  •  Lisa Jensen  •  Beth Jantz  •  Heather McShain  •  Margaret Schneider  •
Former Article III judges	James Holderman  •  Wayne Andersen  •  Ruben Castillo  •  David Coar  •  John Darrah  •  Samuel Der-Yeghiayan  •  John F. Grady  •  William Hart  •  William Hibbler  •  Harry Leinenweber  •  George Lindberg  •  Blanche Manning  •  James B. Moran  •  John Nordberg  •  Ann Williams (Federal judge)  •  Paul Plunkett  •  Joel Flaum  •  Brian Duff  •  Ilana Rovner  •  Mark Filip  •  Milton Shadur  •  Thomas Drummond  •  Henry Williams Blodgett  •  William Bauer  •  Philip Tone  •  Peter Stenger Grosscup  •  Christian Cecil Kohlsaat  •  Solomon Hicks Bethea  •  Kenesaw Mountain Landis  •  George Albert Carpenter  •  Adam Cliffe  •  James Herbert Wilkerson  •  John Peter Barnes  •  George Johnson (Illinois)  •  William Harrison Holly  •  Philip Leo Sullivan  •  Michael Igoe  •  William Lynch (Illinois)  •  James Alesia  •  Richard Austin  •  Nicholas Bua  •  William Campbell (Illinois)  •  John Crowley (Illinois)  •  Bernard Decker  •  Susan Getzendanner  •  Julius Hoffman  •  Alfred Kirkland  •  Winfred Knoch  •  Walter LaBuy  •  George Leighton  •  Abraham Marovitz  •  Prentice Marshall  •  Frank McGarr  •  Richard McLaren  •  Thomas McMillen  •  Julius Miner  •  Alexander Napoli  •  James B. Parsons  •  Joseph Perry (Illinois)  •  Edwin Robson  •  Stanley Roszkowski  •  Elwyn Shaw  •  Hubert Will  •  Charles Woodward  •  Gary Feinerman  •  John Z. Lee (Illinois)  •  Nancy Maldonado  •
Former Chief judges	Marvin Aspen  •  Ruben Castillo  •  John F. Grady  •  Charles Kocoras  •  James B. Moran  •  Rebecca Pallmeyer  •  John Peter Barnes  •  Philip Leo Sullivan  •  William Campbell (Illinois)  •  Frank McGarr  •  James B. Parsons  •  Edwin Robson  •