Benchlight The federal appellate judiciary

Appointment

Court
Court of Claims
Title
Judge
Appointed by
James BuchananDemocratic president
Seat
CLMS0202
Nominated
May 3, 1858
Committee action
Reported (no recommendation recorded)May 6, 1858
Senate vote
27โ€“13Roll Call
Confirmed
May 6, 1858
Commissioned
May 6, 1858
Chief Judge from
Jan. 1, 1859until Jan. 1, 1863
Service ended
Dec. 14, 1877Resignation

Source Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Judges. Party shown is the party of the appointing president, which is a fact about the president, not about the judge.

Recent judicial activity

Opinions authored and panels sat on, most recent first.

  • No recorded activity.

Cases

Appellate cases on which this judge sat, drawn from panel information published with each decision.

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Judicial writings

No writings are attributed to this judge in the ingested records.

Source Authorship is recorded only where the source data carries it. For recent Courts of Appeals opinions CourtListener frequently publishes the decision as a single document without naming the authoring judge, so an absence here means the attribution is unavailable upstream โ€” not that the judge has written nothing.