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Appointment

Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Title
Judge
Appointed by
None (assignment)None (assignment) president
Seat
CA10101
Commissioned
June 16, 1891
Service ended
Feb. 7, 1913Resignation

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.

Judicial service history

Every federal judicial office held, in order of appointment.

CourtTitleCommissionedEndedAppointed by
U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island Judge March 21, 1881 July 23, 1884 Appointment to Another Judicial Position James A. Garfield
U.S. Circuit Courts for the First Circuit Judge July 5, 1884 Dec. 31, 1911 Abolition of Court Chester A. Arthur
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Judge June 16, 1891 Feb. 7, 1913 Resignation None (assignment)

Recent judicial activity

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  • No recorded activity.

Cases

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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 — not that the judge has written nothing.