U.S. District Court in Missouri
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U.S. District Court in Missouri
U.S. District Judges for Missouri, 1943(may beincomplete!)
RichardM. Duncan 1943
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Missouri,1857-2017(may be incomplete!)
SamuelTreat 1857-87AmosMadden Thayer 1887-94HenryS. Priest 1894-95ElmerBragg Adams 1895-1905GustavusA. Finkelnburg 1905-07DavidP. Dyer 1907CharlesB. Faris 1919-30GeorgeMoore 1935-62RubeyM. Hulen 1943-56JamesH. Meredith 1962-79JohnKeating Regan 1962-77WilliamRobert Collinson 1965-80WilliamH. Webster 1970-73H.Kenneth Wangelin 1970-83WilliamL. Hungate 1979-92ClydeS. Cahill, Jr. 1980-92JosephE. Stevens, Jr. 1981-95GeorgeF. Gunn, Jr. 1985-96JeanConstance Hamilton 1990-2013DonaldJ. Stohr 1992-2006CharlesAlexander Shaw 1993-2009E.Richard Webber 1995-2009RodneyW. Sippel 1997-HenryEdward Autrey 2002-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Missouri,1888-2017(may be incomplete!)
JohnF. Philips 1888-1910ArbaS. Van Valkenburgh 1910-AlbertL. Reeves 1923-54MerrillE. Otis 1925-44AlbertA. Ridge 1945-61R.Jasper Smith 1956-62WilliamHenry Becker 1961-77WilliamRobert Collinson 1965-80ElmoBolton Hunter 1965-80H.Kenneth Wangelin 1970-83RussellGentry Clark 1977-91HowardF. Sachs 1979-92ScottOlin Wright 1979-91JosephE. Stevens, Jr. 1981-95D.Brook Bartlett 1981-2000RossThompson Roberts 1982-87DeanWhipple 1987-2007OrtrieD. Smith 1995-2011RodneyW. Sippel 1997-RichardEverett Dorr 2002-13M.Douglas Harpool 2014-StephenRogers Bough 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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