U.S. District Court in Wisconsin
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U.S. District Court in Wisconsin
U.S. District Judges for Wisconsin, 1848-70(may beincomplete!)
AndrewG. Miller 1848-70
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Wisconsin,1870-2017(may be incomplete!)
AndrewG. Miller 1870-73JamesH. Howe 1873CharlesE. Dyer 1875-88JamesG. Jenkins 1888-93WilliamHenry Seaman 1893-1905FerdinandAugust Geiger 1912-39F.Ryan Duffy 1939-49KennethPhilip Grubb 1955-65JohnW. Reynolds, Jr. 1965-86RobertW. Warren 1974-91TerenceThomas Evans 1979-95ThomasJohn Curran 1983-97JosephP. Stadtmueller 1987-RudolphThomas Randa 1992-2016CharlesN. Clevert, Jr. 1996-2012LynnS. Adelman 1997-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Wisconsin,1870-2010(may be incomplete!)
JamesC. Hopkins 1870-77RomanzoBunn 1877-1905ArthurLoomis Sanborn 1905-20ClaudeZeth Luse 1921PatrickT. Stone 1933-63JamesE. Doyle 1965-80BarbaraBrandriff Crabb 1979-2010JohnC. Shabaz 1981-2009
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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