Judges of U.S. Court of Claims, 1855-2001(may be incomplete!)
IsaacNewton Blackford 1855-59JohnJames Gilchrist 1855-58GeorgeParker Scarburgh 1855-61EdwardGreely Loring 1858-77JamesHughes 1860JosephCasey 1861-70EbenezerPeck 1863-78CharlesCooper Nott 1865-96SamuelMilligan 1868-74CharlesD. Drake 1870WilliamAdams Richardson 1874-96BancroftDavis 1878-82WilliamH. Hunt 1878-81GlenniW. Scofield 1881-91LawrenceWeldon 1883-1905JohnDavis 1885-1902StantonJ. Peelle 1892-1913CharlesB. Howry 1897-FentonW. Booth 1905-GeorgeW. Atkinson 1905-16SamuelS. Barney 1906-16EdwardKernan Campbell 1913GeorgeEddy Downey 1915-26JamesHay 1916SamuelJordan Graham 1919-30J.McKenzie Moss 1926-29WilliamR. Green 1928-40NicholasJ. Sinnott 1928-29BenjaminH. Littleton 1929-58RichardS. Whaley 1930SamuelEstill Whitaker 1939-64MarvinJones 1940-43JohnMarvin Jones 1940-47J.Warren Madden 1941-61MarvinJones 1945-64EvanHowell 1947-53DonNelson Laramore 1954JamesRandall Durfee 1960-OscarH. Davis 1962-WilsonCowen 1964-LintonM. Collins 1964-72PhilipNichols, Jr. 1966-82ByronSkelton 1966-77MarionT. Bennett 1972-82ShiroKashiwa 1972-82RobertL. Kunzig 1972-82EdwardSamuel Smith 1978-82JohnLight Napier 1986RogerB. Andewelt 1987-2001 Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
1858 Apr 29:JohnJames Gilchrist, died in office. 1861 Apr 20:GeorgeParker Scarburgh, resigned. 1874 Apr 20:SamuelMilligan, died in office. 1877 Dec 14:EdwardGreely Loring, resigned. 1878 May 1:EbenezerPeck, resigned. 1891 Jul 29:GlenniW. Scofield, resigned. 1902 May 5:JohnDavis, died in office. 1905 Apr 10:LawrenceWeldon, died in office. 1926 May 24:GeorgeEddy Downey, died in office. 1929 Jun 11:J.McKenzie Moss, died in office. 1929 Jul 20:NicholasJ. Sinnott, died in office. 1930 May 1:SamuelJordan Graham, took senior status. 1961 Aug 15:J.Warren Madden, took senior status. 1964 Jul 19:SamuelEstill Whitaker, took senior status. 1972 Apr 12:LintonM. Collins, died in office. 1977 May 1:ByronSkelton, took senior status. 1982 Feb 21:RobertL. Kunzig, died in office. 2001 Aug 7:RogerB. Andewelt, died in office.Judges of U.S. Court of Customs and PatentAppeals, 1929-82(may be incomplete!)
FinisJ. Garrett 1929IrvineL. Lenroot 1929-44FrederickW. Dallinger 1932-42JosephRaymond Jackson 1937-52WilliamA. Ekwall 1942-56AmbroseO'Connell 1944-48NobleJ. Johnson 1948-58EugeneWorley 1950-59WilliamP. Cole, Jr. 1952-57GilesSutherland Rich 1956-82I.Jack Martin 1958-66ArthurM. Smith 1959-68J.Lindsay Almond, Jr. 1962-82PhillipBenjamin Baldwin 1968-82DonaldEdward Lane 1969-79JackMiller 1973-82HelenWilson Nies 1980-82 Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
1944 Apr 30:IrvineL. Lenroot, retired. 1952 Apr 1:JosephRaymond Jackson, took senior status. 1956 Oct 16:WilliamA. Ekwall, died in office. 1966 Nov 5:I.Jack Martin, died in office. 1968 Nov 20:ArthurM. Smith, died in office. 1979 May 30:DonaldEdward Lane, died in office.Judges of U.S. Court of Customs Appeals,1910-50(may be incomplete!)
WilliamH. Hunt 1910-11OrionM. Barber 1910-28JamesFrancis Smith 1910-28MarionDe Vries 1910-21GeorgeE. Martin 1911-23OscarE. Bland 1923-47CharlesSherrod Hatfield 1923-50WilliamJ. Graham 1924-37 Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
1928 Jun 29:JamesFrancis Smith, died in office. 1928 Sep 30:OrionM. Barber, took senior status. 1937 Nov 10:WilliamJ. Graham, died in office. 1950 Feb 9:CharlesSherrod Hatfield, died in office.Judges of U.S. Customs Court, 1900-80(maybe incomplete!)
MarionDe Vries 1900-10WilliamC. Adamson 1926-28GeorgeStewart Brown 1926-41WilliamBarberie Howell 1926-27CharlesP. McClelland 1926-39JerryB. Sullivan 1926-39ByronS. Waite 1926-30GeorgeEmery Weller 1926-30IsraelF. Fischer 1927-33WilliamJosiah Tilson 1928-49GenevieveRose Cline 1928-53WalterHoward Evans 1931-41WilliamJohn Keefe 1933-47ThomasJoseph Walker 1940-45ThomasJoseph Walker 1940-45WebsterJ. Oliver 1940-67WilliamP. Cole, Jr. 1942-52CharlesDrummond Lawrence 1943IrvinCharles Mollison 1945-62PaulP. Rao 1948-80MorganFord 1949-DavidJ. Wilson 1954-66MaryH. Donlon 1955-66ScovelRichardson 1957-80PhilipNichols, Jr. 1964-66FrederickLandis 1965-80JamesL. Watson 1966-80LindleyBeckworth 1967-68HerbertNaaman Maletz 1967-80BernardNewman 1968-80SamuelMurray Rosenstein 1968-70EdwardDomenic Re 1968-80NilsA. Boe 1971-77 Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
1927 Apr 4:WilliamBarberie Howell, died in office. 1930 Nov 1:ByronS. Waite, retired. 1939 Sep 30:JerryB. Sullivan, retired;CharlesP. McClelland, retired. 1941 May 31:WalterHoward Evans, retired. 1941 Aug 31:GeorgeStewart Brown, retired. 1945 Jan 18:ThomasJoseph Walker, died in office. 1947 Jan 15:WilliamJohn Keefe, retired. 1949 May 26:WilliamJosiah Tilson, died in office. 1953 Mar 1:GenevieveRose Cline, retired. 1962 May 5:IrvinCharles Mollison, died in office. 1966 Apr 1:DavidJ. Wilson, took senior status. 1966 Oct 1:MaryH. Donlon, took senior status. 1967 Jun 24:WebsterJ. Oliver, took senior status. 1970 Dec 31:SamuelMurray Rosenstein, took senior status.Judge of U.S. Court of Military Appeals,1961-67(may be incomplete!)
PaulJ. Kilday 1961-67 Judges of U.S. Commerce Court, 1910-13(maybe incomplete!)
JohnE. Carland 1910-13MartinA. Knapp 1910-13JulianW. Mack 1911-13WilliamH. Hunt 1911-13 Judges of U.S. District Courts, 1831-2004(may be incomplete!)
MatthewHarvey 1831-66WilliamF. Giles 1853-79DanielClark 1866-91OlinWellborn 1895-1915JamesWickersham 1900HoraceW. Vaughan 1916-22JohnPaul 1932-59T.Alan Goldsborough 1939-41EdwardC. Eicher 1942CarlA. Hatch 1949-63J.Skelly Wright 1949-62AllanK. Grim 1950LutherW. Youngdahl 1951-66CharlesEvans Whittaker 1954-56HubertL. Will 1961-95FrankGray, Jr. 1962RobertWitherspoon Hemphill 1964RobertF. Chapman 1974CecilF. Poole 1976-79WilliamCurtis Bryson 1994- Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
1866 Apr 7:MatthewHarvey, died in office. 1891 Jan 2:DanielClark, died in office. 1995 Dec 9:HubertL. Will, died in office.Other Federal Judges, 1786-2001(may beincomplete!)
JosephClay 1786FrancisHopkinson 1789JohnSullivan 1789ReturnJ. Meigs, Jr. 1807-08JesseB. Thomas 1809-18ThomasRodney 1811RobertTrimble 1817JohnBranch 1822WillardHall 1823JamesD. Doty 1828-32PowhatanEllis 1832ArchibaldYell 1832-35HumphreyH. Leavitt 1834SamuelJameson Gholson 1839CharlesJared Ingersoll 1853JohnLaw 1855TrumanSmith 1862JohnW. Longyear 1870DavidMcKendree Key 1880HowellEdmunds Jackson 1886ConstantineB. Kilgore 1895JohnR. Thomas 1897WilliamS. Kenyon 1922WilliamH. Kirkpatrick 1927DavidH. Kincheloe 1930OscarRaymond Luhring 1930J.Russell Leech 1932FrankL. Kloeb 1937CharlesH. Leavy 1942GuyT. Helvering 1943ByronB. Harlan 1946LutherA. Johnson 1946JedJohnson 1947EdwardL. Leahy 1951HomerFerguson 1956-71SidneyL. Christie 1964WoodrowW. Jones 1968JeffryH. Gallet 1993-2001 | |
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