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U.S. District Court in Massachusetts
U.S. District Judges for Massachusetts, 1789-2021(may beincomplete!)
JohnLowell 1789-1801PelegSprague 1841-65JohnLowell 1865ThomasLeverett Nelson 1879-97FrancisCabot Lowell 1898FredericDodge 1905-12JamesMadison Morton, Jr. 1912-32ElishaHume Brewster 1922-41HughDean McLellan 1932-41GeorgeC. Sweeney 1935-66CharlesEdward Wyzanski, Jr. 1941-71ArthurD. Healey 1942-48WilliamT. McCarthy 1949-60BaileyAldrich 1954-59AndrewAugustine Caffrey 1960-86W.Arthur Garrity, Jr. 1966-85FrankJerome Murray 1967-77LevinH. Campbell 1971-72FrankH. Freedman 1972-92WalterJay Skinner 1973-92A.David Mazzone 1978-93RobertErnest Keeton 1979-2003JohnJoseph McNaught 1979-91DavidSutherland Nelson 1979-91ReginaldC. Lindsay 1993-2009PattiB. Saris 1993-RichardGaylore Stearns 1993-F.Dennis Saylor IV 2004-DeniseJefferson Casper 2010-IndiraTalwani 2014-MarkGerald Mastroianni 2014-LeoTheodore Sorokin 2014-AllisonDale Burroughs 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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