List of federal judges appointed by John Tyler
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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President John Tyler during his presidency.[1] In total Tyler appointed 7 Article III federal judges, including 1 Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States and 6 judges to the United States district courts.
Two vacancies occurred on the Supreme Court during Tyler's presidency, as Justices Smith Thompson and Henry Baldwin died in 1843 and 1844, respectively. Tyler put forward five men for Supreme Court confirmation a total of nine times. John C. Spencer, Reuben Walworth, Edward King all had their nominations scuttled more than once, and the full Senate never acted on John M. Read's nomination.[2] Tyler's four unsuccessful nominees are the most for any U.S. president to date.[3]
United States Supreme Court justices
[edit]# | Justice | Seat | State | Former justice | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
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1 | Samuel Nelson | 1 | New York | Smith Thompson | February 4, 1845 | February 14, 1845 | February 13, 1845 | November 28, 1872 |
District courts
[edit]# | Judge | Court [Note 1] | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Peleg Sprague | D. Mass. | July 15, 1841 | July 16, 1841 | July 16, 1841 | March 13, 1865 |
2 | Theodore Howard McCaleb | E.D. La. W.D. La. | September 1, 1841 | September 3, 1841 | September 3, 1841 | January 28, 1861[4] |
3 | Archibald Randall | E.D. Pa. | March 3, 1842 | March 8, 1842 | March 8, 1842 | June 8, 1846 |
4 | Samuel Prentiss | D. Vt. | April 8, 1842 | April 8, 1842 | April 8, 1842 | January 15, 1857 |
5 | Elisha Mills Huntington | D. Ind. | April 26, 1842 | May 2, 1842 | May 2, 1842 | October 26, 1862 |
6 | James Dandridge Halyburton | E.D. Va. | June 15, 1844 | June 15, 1844 | June 15, 1844 | April 24, 1861 |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- General
- "Judges of the United States Courts". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Federal Judicial Center. Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- Specific
- ^ All information on the names, terms of service, and details of appointment of federal judges is derived from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public-domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ "Supreme Court Nomination Battles: Tyler's Failures". Time Magazine. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
- ^ "Supreme Court Nominations, present–1789". United States Senate Reference. United States Senate. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
- ^ Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana on February 13, 1845. Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on March 3, 1849.