U.S. District Court in South Carolina
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U.S. District Court in South Carolina
U.S. District Judges for South Carolina, 1790-2017(may beincomplete!)
ThomasBee 1790-1812JohnDrayton 1812-22ThomasLee 1823-39AndrewGordon Magrath 1856-60GeorgeS. Bryan 1866-86CharlesHenry Simonton 1886-93WilliamH. Brawley 1894-1911HenryAugustus Middleton Smith 1911-12GeorgeBell Timmerman 1942-62JamesRobert Martin, Jr. 1965-79CharlesE. Simons, Jr. 1965-86DonaldS. Russell 1966-71SolomonBlatt, Jr. 1971-90MatthewJ. Perry, Jr. 1979-95FalconBlack Hawkins, Jr. 1979-93C.Weston Houck 1979-2003G.Ross Anderson, Jr. 1980-2009ClydeH. Hamilton 1981-91KarenLeCraft Henderson 1986-90JosephFletcher Anderson, Jr. 1986-DennisW. Shedd 1990-2002CameronMcGowan Currie 1994-2013PatrickMichael Duffy 1995-2009MargaretB. Seymour 1998-2013RobertBryan Harwell 2004-JuliannaMichelle Childs 2010-TimothyMartin Cain 2011-BruceHowe Hendricks 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of South Carolina,1912-65(may be incomplete!)
HenryAugustus Middleton Smith 1912-23JohnLyles Glenn, Jr. 1929-38FrancisKerchner Myers 1934-40JuliusW. Waring 1942-52JamesRobert Martin, Jr. 1961-65CharlesE. Simons, Jr. 1964-65
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of South Carolina,1912-65(may be incomplete!)
HenryAugustus Middleton Smith 1912-15JosephT. Johnson 1915-19HenryHitt Watkins 1919-36JohnLyles Glenn, Jr. 1929-38JamesRobert Martin, Jr. 1961-65
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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