Richard Henry Alvey

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Years in office: 1893 - 1905

Education

Law

Read law, 1849

Personal

Birthplace

Maryland

Richard Henry Alvey (1826-1906) was afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

He was nominated by PresidentGrover Cleveland on April 14, 1893. He was confirmed by the Senate onApril 15, 1893, and received commission that same day. He retired onJanuary 1, 1905.^[1]

Education

• Read law, 1849

Professional career

• Private practice, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1850-1867
• Member, Maryland State Legislature, 1867
• Delegate, Maryland Constitutional Convention, 1867
• Chief judge, Fourth Judicial Circuit Court of Maryland, 1867-1883
• Chief justice, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1883-1893
• Private practice, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1904-1906^[1]

External links

• Biography from "Men of Mark in Maryland" by Bernard C. Steiner, Ph.D.

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit
Active judges	Chief Judge: Srikanth Srinivasan  •  Karen Henderson  •  J. Michelle Childs  •  Florence Pan  •  Robert Leon Wilkins  •  Patricia Ann Millett  •  Cornelia T. L. Pillard  •  Greg Katsas  •  Neomi Rao  •  Justin Walker (U.S. Court of Appeals)  •  Bradley Garcia
Senior judges	David Sentelle  •  Douglas Ginsburg  •  David Tatel  •  Harry Edwards  •  Arthur Randolph  •
Former judges	William Cranch  •  James Markham Marshall  •  Allen Bowie Duckett  •  Nicholas Battalle Fitzhugh  •  William Kilty  •  James Sewall Morsell  •  Buckner Thruston  •  James Dunlop  •  William Matthew Merrick  •  Richard Henry Alvey  •  Martin Ferdinand Morris  •  Seth Shepard  •  Louis Emory McComas  •  Charles Holland Duell  •  Charles Henry Robb  •  Josiah Alexander Van Orsdel  •  William Hitz  •  Constantine Joseph Smyth  •  Duncan Groner  •  George Ewing Martin  •  James McPherson Proctor (Federal judge)  •  Harold Montelle Stephens  •  Henry Edgerton  •  Justin Miller (D.C. Circuit)  •  Stephen F. Williams  •  Janice Rogers Brown  •  Merrick Garland  •  Thomas Griffith  •  Brett Kavanaugh  •  Laurence Silberman  •  Walter Bastian  •  Edward Tamm  •  Spottswood Robinson  •  Thurman Arnold  •  Bennett Clark  •  Wilbur Miller  •  David Bazelon  •  Robert Bork  •  John Danaher  •  Charles Fahy  •  George MacKinnon  •  Carl McGowan  •  Abner Mikva  •  Elijah Prettyman  •  Roger Robb  •  Kenneth Starr  •  Patricia Wald  •  George Thomas Washington (Federal judge)  •  Malcolm Wilkey  •  George Edward MacKinnon  •  Ketanji Brown Jackson  •  James Wright (Louisiana)  •
Former Chief judges	William Cranch  •  Richard Henry Alvey  •  Seth Shepard  •  Constantine Joseph Smyth  •  Duncan Groner  •  George Ewing Martin  •  Harold Montelle Stephens  •  Henry Edgerton  •  David Sentelle  •  Merrick Garland  •  Douglas Ginsburg  •  Harry Edwards  •  Spottswood Robinson  •  Wilbur Miller  •  David Bazelon  •  Carl McGowan  •  Abner Mikva  •  Elijah Prettyman  •  Patricia Wald  •  James Wright (Louisiana)  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byGrover Cleveland
1886	Jackson •Merrick •Severens
1887	Newman •Ross •Simonton •Thayer •Toulmin
1888	Allen •Fuller •Jenkins •Lacombe •Lamar •Maxey •Montgomery • Philips
1893	Alvey •Bellinger •Bingham •Lurton •Morris •Seaman •Shepard •Simonton
1894	Brawley •Parlange •Priest •Thayer •White
1895	Adams •Clark •Peckham •Showalter •Wellborn
1896	Brown •Carland •Kirkpatrick •Lochren •Marshall •McHugh •Rogers
1897	Amidon •Howry •Munger •Nott