List of federal judges appointed by Chester A. Arthur
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Justice Horace Gray, Arthur's first and longest serving appointee to the Supreme Court
Following is a list of all United States federal judges appointed by President Chester A. Arthur during his presidency.[1] In total Arthur appointed twenty federal judges, including two Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, four judges to the United States circuit courts, and fourteen judges to the United States district courts. Arthur shared the appointment of Addison Brown with his predecessor, James A. Garfield, with Garfield placing him on the bench via a recess appointment and Arthur later nominating him to the same seat and issuing his commission.
Contents
United States Supreme Court Justices
Justice | Seat | State | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Samuel Blatchford | Seat 4 | New York | March 22, 1882 | July 7, 1893 |
Horace Gray | Seat 2 | Massachusetts | December 20, 1881 | September 15, 1902 |
Circuit Courts

David Josiah Brewer, appointed to the Eighth Circuit Court by Arthur, was later elevated to the Supreme Court.
Judge | Circuit | Began active service |
Ended active service |
David Josiah Brewer | Eighth | March 31, 1884 | January 6, 1890 |
LeBaron B. Colt | First | July 5, 1884 | February 7, 1913[2] |
Walter Q. Gresham | Seventh | October 28, 1884[3] | March 3, 1893[2] |
William James Wallace | Second | April 6, 1882 | May 8, 1907[2] |
District courts
Judge | Court [Note 1] |
Began active service |
Ended active service |
Addison Brown | S.D.N.Y. | June 2, 1881[4] | August 30, 1901 |
George Moulton Carpenter, Jr. | D.R.I. | December 18, 1884 | July 31, 1896 |
Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr. | N.D.N.Y. | May 4, 1882 | June 14, 1902 |
Henry Kent McCay | N.D. Ga. | August 4, 1882 | July 30, 1886 |
John Paul, Sr. | W.D. Va. | March 3, 1883 | November 1, 1901 |
Chauncey Brewer Sabin | E.D. Tex. | April 5, 1884 | March 30, 1890 |
George Myron Sabin | D. Nev. | July 26, 1882 | May 12, 1890 |
George Read Sage | S.D. Ohio | March 20, 1883[5] | August 24, 1898 |
Augustus Sherrill Seymour | E.D.N.C. | February 21, 1882 | February 19, 1897 |
Oliver Perry Shiras | N.D. Iowa | August 4, 1882 | November 1, 1903 |
Emory Speer | S.D. Ga. | February 18, 1885 | December 13, 1918 |
Leonard Eugene Wales | D. Del. | March 20, 1884 | February 8, 1897 |
Nathan Webb | D. Me. | January 24, 1882 | June 30, 1902 |
William Allen Woods | D. Ind. | May 2, 1883[6] | March 21, 1892 |
Specialty courts
United States Court of Claims
Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
---|---|---|
John Chandler Bancroft Davis | 1882 | 1883[7] |
Lawrence Weldon | 1883 | 1905 |
John Davis | 1885 | 1902 |
Notes
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Sources
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Reassigned by operation of law to the corresponding United States Court of Appeals on June 16, 1891.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 3, 1884, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 9, 1884, and received commission on December 9, 1884.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on October 12, 1881, confirmed by the United States Senate on October 14, 1881, and received commission on October 14, 1881.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 18, 1883, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 7, 1884, and received commission on January 7, 1884.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 18, 1883, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 7, 1884, and received commission on January 7, 1884.
- ↑ Davis was previously appointed to the Court of Claims by Rutherford B. Hayes; he resigned from this position, but was restored to it by Arthur the following year.