William Drayton

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the District of South Carolina

Years in office: 1790 - 1790

Education

Bachelor's

Middle Temple, 1754

Law

Read law, 1756

Personal

Birthplace

South Carolina

William Drayton was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the District of South Carolina. He was nominated by PresidentGeorge Washington on February 8, 1790. He was confirmed by the Senate onFebruary 10, 1790, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onMay 18, 1790.^[1] Drayton was succeeded in this position byThomas Bee.

Early life and education

• Middle Temple, London, England, 1754
• Read law, 1756^[1]

Professional career

• Justice of the peace, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1756-1763
• Chief justice, Province of East Florida, 1763-1780
• Judge, South Carolina Admiralty Court, 1789
• Associate judge, South Carolina Supreme Court, 1789^[1]

External links

• Judge Drayton's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byGeorge Washington
Washington	Bedford •Blair •Brearley •Cushing •Duane •Hopkinson •Innes •Jay •Law •Lowell •Pendleton •Rutledge •Sewall •Sullivan •Wilson
1790	Bee •Drayton •Griffin •Iredell •Marchant •Morris •Paca •Sitgreaves •Stokes
1791 - 92	Chipman •Johnson •Lewis •Peters
1793 - 95	Hitchcock •Paterson •Laurance •Pickering
1796	Bourne •Chase •Clay •Ellsworth •Troup
1797	McNairy

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.  •