“List of federal judges appointed by John Tyler”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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

Justice

Seat

State

Former Justice

Nomination
date

Confirmation
date

Began
active service

Ended
active service

1}}

Samuel|Nelson}}

New York

Smith|Thompson}}

1845|02|04}}

1845|02|14}}

1845|02|13}}

1872|11|28}}

District Courts

Judge

Court
^[4]

Nomination
date

Confirmation
date

Began active
service

Ended active
service

1}}

Peleg|Sprague|dab=Maine politician}}

Massachusetts|D. Mass.}}

1841|07|15}}

1841|07|16}}

1865|03|13}}

2}}

Theodore Howard|McCaleb}}

Louisiana EW|E.D. La.
W.D. La.}}

1841|09|01}}

1841|09|03}}

1845|02|13}}^[5]

3}}

Archibald|Randall}}

Pennsylvania E|E.D. Pa.}}

1842|03|03}}

1842|03|08}}

1846|06|08}}

4}}

Samuel|Prentiss}}

Vermont|D. Vt.}}

1842|04|08}}

1857|01|15}}

5}}

Elisha Mills|Huntington}}

Indiana|D. Ind.}}

1842|04|26}}

1842|05|02}}

1862|10|26}}

6}}

James Dandridge|Halyburton}}

Virginia E|E.D. Va.}}

1844|06|15}}

1861|04|24}}

Notes

1. ^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.
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895379_1895421_1895399,00.html|title=Supreme Court Nomination Battles: Tyler's Failures|publisher=Time Magazine|accessdate=February 10, 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm |title=Supreme Court Nominations, present–1789 |work=United States Senate Reference |accessdate=April 27, 2014|publisher=United States Senate}}
4. ^See List of United States district and territorial courts
5. ^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.

References

General

{{cite web|url=http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj |title=Judges of the United States Courts |work=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |accessdate=2009-04-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730115701/http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj |archivedate=2016-07-30 |df= }}

Specific

Sources

Federal Judicial Center

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