Oscar Richard Hundley

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Year left office: 1908

Education

Law

Vanderbilt University, 1877

Personal

Birthplace

Alabama

Oscar Richard Hundley (1855-1921) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

He received a recess appointment from PresidentTheodore Roosevelt on April 9, 1907 to fill a new seat created by 34 Stat. 931. He was nominated on December 3, 1907, but this nomination was not approved by the Senate, so his service ended on May 30, 1908.

Hundley received another recess appointment from PresidentTheodore Roosevelt on May 30, 1908. He was nominated on December 8, 1908, but since the Senate again refused to confirm the nomination, his service was ended on March 3, 1909.

He received a third recess appointment on March 6, 1909, this time from PresidentWilliam Howard Taft. He resigned soon after this, on May 25, 1909.

Early life and education

• Vanderbilt University, LL.B., 1877

Professional career

• Private practice, Huntsville, Alabama, 1878-1907
• Division counsel, Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway, 1884-1907
• City attorney, Huntsville, Alabama, 1886-1890
• Member, Alabama House of Representatives, 1886-1890
• Member, Alabama State Senate, 1890-1898
• Assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of Alabama, 1906-1907
• President and general counsel, Sun Life Insurance Company, Birmingham, Alabama, 1913

Judicial career

Northern District of Alabama

Hundley received a recess appointment from PresidentTheodore Roosevelt on April 9, 1907 to fill a new seat created by 34 Stat. 931. He was nominated on December 3, 1907, but this nomination was not approved by the Senate, so his service ended on May 30, 1908.

Hundley received another recess appointment from PresidentTheodore Roosevelt on May 30, 1908. He was nominated on December 8, 1908, but since the Senate again refused to confirm the nomination, his service was ended on March 3, 1909.

He received a third recess appointment on March 6, 1909, this time from PresidentWilliam Howard Taft.^[1] He resigned soon after this, on May 25, 1909.

External links

• Biography from theFederal Judicial Center.
• Article fromThe New York Times, published 1908

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byTheodore Roosevelt
1901	Baker •Jones •McDowell
1902	Anderson •Burns •Coxe •Gould •Hale •Holmes •Platt •Ray •Townsend •Waite
1903	Clabaugh •Day •Hay •Holt •Hook •McClelland •Morris •Pollock •Pritchard •Richards •Van Devanter •Daniel Wright • Francis Wright
1904	Duell •Holland •Hunt •Lanning •Reed •Shepard •Stafford
1905	Adams •Atkinson •Barney •Bethea •Booth •Cross •Dayton •Dodge •Finkelnburg •Kohlsaat •Landis •Lowell •McCall •McComas •Quarles •Sanborn •Seaman •Tayler •Whitson •Wolverton •Wright
1906	Buffington •Chatfield •Ewing •Farrington •Hough •Knappen •Lewis •Martin •Moody •Peelle •Robb
1907	Campbell •Cotteral •Dietrich •Dyer •Hundley •Munger •NoyesSaunders •Sheppard •Van Fleet •Van Orsdel •Ward
1908	Chamberlain •Purdy •Sanford •Sater •Young
1909	Foster

v • e Federal judges nominated byWilliam Howard Taft
1909	Bean •Carpenter •Connor •Donworth •Grubb •Hand •Hundley •Lanning •Lurton •Orr •Purdy •Rellstab •Warrington •Willard
1910	Archbald •Barber •Carland •Cooper •Denison •De Vries •Hollister •Hughes •Hunt •Killits •Knapp •Knappen •Lamar •Mack •Montgomery •Rasch •Rose •Russell •Smith •Van Devanter •Van Valkenburgh •White
1911	Angell •Day •Denison •Elliott •Martin •Rudkin •Schofield •Sessions •H. Smith •W. Smith •Veeder •Whitmer • Youmans
1912	Bourquin •Cheney •Cushman •Dodge •Geiger •Howard •Mayer •McPherson •Morton •Pitney •Pope •Sloan •Thompson •Tuttle •

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
Active judges	Chief Judge: Madeline Haikala  •  Liles Burke  •  Annemarie Carney Axon  •  Corey Maze  •  Anna Manasco  •  Edmund LaCour  •  Harold Mooty
Senior judges	Sharon Blackburn  •  Charles Smith (Alabama)  •  Inge Johnson  •  Karon Bowdre  •  David Proctor  •  Virginia Hopkins  •
Magistrate judges	John H. England  •  Staci G. Cornelius  •  Gray M. Borden  •  Herman Johnson  •  Nicholas Danella  •
Former Article III judges	James Hancock  •  Robert Propst  •  William Acker  •  U. W. Clemon  •  Scott Coogler  •  William Crawford (Alabama)  •  Charles Tait  •  John Gayle  •  William Giles Jones  •  Richard Busteed  •  George Washington Lane  •  John Bruce  •  Oscar Richard Hundley  •  Thomas Goode Jones (Alabama)  •  William Irwin Grubb  •  Henry De Lamar Clayton  •  Charles Brents Kennamer  •  David Jackson Davis (United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama judge)  •  Thomas Murphree  •  Clarence Allgood  •  Harlan Grooms  •  Elbert Haltom  •  Seybourn Lynne  •  Frank McFadden  •  Clarence Mullins  •  Edwin Nelson  •  Sam Pointer  •  Frank Hampton McFadden  •  Abdul Kallon  •  Dean Buttram Jr.  •
Former Chief judges	U. W. Clemon  •  Karon Bowdre  •  Scott Coogler  •  David Proctor  •  Seybourn Lynne  •  Frank McFadden  •  Clarence Mullins  •  Sam Pointer  •