List of federal judges appointed by William Howard Taft
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Willis Van Devanter was the longest-serving of Taft's five Supreme Court appointees.
Learned Hand, appointed by Taft to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, was later elevated by Calvin Coolidge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Following is a list of all United States federal judges appointed by President William Howard Taft during his presidency.[1] In total Taft appointed 57 federal judges, including five Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States and the elevation of another to Chief Justice, thirteen judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 38 judges to the United States district courts. Taft also appointed judges to various specialty courts, including the first five appointees each to the United States Commerce Court and the United States Court of Customs Appeals. The Commerce Court was abolished in 1913; Taft was thus the only President to appoint judges to that body.
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United States Supreme Court Justices
| Justice | Seat | State | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Seat 6 | New York | May 2, 1910[2] | June 10, 1916 | – |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar | Seat 3 | Georgia | December 17, 1910 | January 2, 1916 | – |
| Horace Harmon Lurton | Seat 1 | Tennessee | December 20, 1909 | July 12, 1914 | – |
| Mahlon Pitney | Seat 8 | New Jersey | March 13, 1912 | December 31, 1922 | – |
| Willis Van Devanter | Seat 4 | Wyoming | December 16, 1910 | June 2, 1937 | February 8, 1941 |
| Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice | Louisiana | December 12, 1910[3] | May 19, 1921 | – |
Courts of Appeals
| Judge | Circuit | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
| Robert W. Archbald | Third | January 31, 1911 | January 13, 1913[4] | – |
| John Emmett Carland | Eighth | January 31, 1911 | November 11, 1922 | – |
| Arthur Carter Denison | Sixth | March 2, 1911 | December 31, 1931 | – |
| Frederic Dodge | First | July 23, 1912 | June 30, 1918 | – |
| William Henry Hunt | Ninth | February 8, 1911 | January 31, 1928 | November 30, 1928 |
| Martin A. Knapp | Second | December 20, 1910 | February 10, 1923[5] | – |
| Loyal Edwin Knappen | Sixth | January 31, 1910 | April 15, 1924 | May 14, 1930 |
| William M. Lanning | Third | May 18, 1909 | February 16, 1912 | – |
| Julian Mack | Seventh | January 31, 1911 | September 6, 1940[6] | – |
| John Bayard McPherson | Third | April 3, 1912 | January 20, 1919 | – |
| William Schofield | First | June 6, 1911 | June 10, 1912 | – |
| Walter I. Smith | Eighth | January 31, 1911 | January 27, 1922 | – |
| John Wesley Warrington | Sixth | March 16, 1909 | October 6, 1919 | May 26, 1921 |
District courts
| Judge | Court [Note 1] |
Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
| Alexis Caswell Angell | E.D. Mich. | March 2, 1911 | June 1, 1912 | – |
| Robert S. Bean | D. Or. | April 28, 1909 | January 7, 1931 | – |
| George M. Bourquin | D. Mont. | March 8, 1912 | March 9, 1934 | November 15, 1958 |
| George Albert Carpenter | N.D. Ill. | January 11, 1910 | June 30, 1933 | – |
| John Moses Cheney | S.D. Fla. | August 26, 1912[7] | March 3, 1913 | – |
| Henry G. Connor | E.D.N.C. | May 25, 1909 | November 23, 1924 | – |
| Edward E. Cushman | W.D. Wash. | May 1, 1912 | November 3, 1939 | January 25, 1944 |
| William Louis Day | N.D. Ohio | May 9, 1911 | May 1, 1914 | – |
| Arthur Carter Denison | W.D. Mich. | January 31, 1910 | October 3, 1911 | – |
| George Donworth | W.D. Wash. | May 18, 1909 | March 20, 1912 | – |
| James Douglas Elliott | D.S.D. | June 7, 1911 | January 30, 1933 | – |
| Ferdinand August Geiger | E.D. Wis. | March 20, 1912 | May 22, 1939 | – |
| William Irwin Grubb | N.D. Ala. | May 18, 1909 | October 27, 1935 | – |
| Learned Hand | S.D.N.Y. | April 26, 1909 | December 29, 1924 | – |
| Howard Clark Hollister | S.D. Ohio | March 7, 1910 | September 24, 1919 | – |
| Clinton Woodbury Howard | W.D. Wash. | August 26, 1912[8] | March 3, 1913 | – |
| Oscar Richard Hundley | N.D. Ala. | March 6, 1909[9] | May 25, 1909 | – |
| John Milton Killits | N.D. Ohio | June 24, 1910 | October 6, 1928 | September 13, 1938 |
| Julius Marshuetz Mayer | S.D.N.Y. | February 26, 1912 | October 13, 1921 | – |
| James Madison Morton, Jr. | D. Mass. | August 12, 1912 | January 19, 1932 | – |
| Charles Prentiss Orr | W.D. Pa. | April 8, 1909 | May 16, 1922 | – |
| William Hayes Pope | D.N.M. | February 20, 1912 | September 13, 1916 | – |
| Milton Dwight Purdy | D. Minn. | March 6, 1909[10] | May 1, 1909 | – |
| Carl L. Rasch | D. Mont. | May 2, 1910 | October 15, 1911 | – |
| John Rellstab | D.N.J. | May 18, 1909 | October 10, 1928 | September 22, 1930 |
| John Carter Rose | D. Md. | April 4, 1910 | December 26, 1922 | – |
| Frank H. Rudkin | E.D. Wash. | January 31, 1911 | January 17, 1923 | – |
| Gordon J. Russell | E.D. Tex. | June 6, 1910 | September 14, 1919 | – |
| Clarence W. Sessions | W.D. Mich. | March 2, 1911 | April 1, 1931 | – |
| Richard Elihu Sloan | D. Ariz. | August 26, 1912[10] | March 3, 1913 | – |
| Henry Augustus Middleton Smith | D.S.C. | June 7, 1911 | March 3, 1915[11] | – |
| Joseph Whitaker Thompson | E.D. Pa. | July 16, 1912 | February 3, 1931 | – |
| Arthur J. Tuttle | E.D. Mich. | August 6, 1912 | December 2, 1944 | – |
| Arba Seymour Van Valkenburgh | W.D. Mo. | June 21, 1910 | March 18, 1925 | – |
| Van Vechten Veeder | E.D.N.Y. | January 26, 1911 | December 31, 1917 | – |
| Charles Andrew Willard | D. Minn. | May 18, 1909 | March 13, 1914 | – |
| Charles B. Witmer | M.D. Pa. | March 2, 1911 | April 7, 1925 | – |
| Frank A. Youmans | W.D. Ark. | June 20, 1911 | April 11, 1932 | – |
Specialty courts
United States Commerce Court
| Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
| Robert Wodrow Archbald | 1911 | January 13, 1913[4] |
| John Emmett Carland | 1911 | December 13, 1913 |
| William Henry Hunt | 1911 | December 13, 1913 |
| Martin Augustine Knapp | 1910 | December 13, 1913 |
| Julian William Mack | 1911 | December 13, 1913 |
United States Court of Customs Appeals
| Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
| Orion Metcalf Barber | 1910 | 1930 |
| Marion De Vries | 1910 | 1922 |
| George Ewing Martin | 1911 | 1924 |
| Robert Morris Montgomery | 1910 | 1920 |
| James Francis Smith | 1910 | 1928 |
Board of General Appraisers
| Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
| Samuel Bronson Cooper | 1910 | 1918 |
Notes
References
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- 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.
- ↑ Hughes resigned from the Court to run for the office of President of the United States, unsuccessfully. He was later reappointed as Chief Justice by President Herbert Hoover.
- ↑ White had previously been appointed as an Associate Justice by President Grover Cleveland on March 12, 1894.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Impeached and removed from office by the United States Congress.
- ↑ Reassigned to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on January 1, 1916.
- ↑ Reassigned to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on June 30, 1929.
- ↑ Recess appointment; the United States Senate later rejected the appointment.
- ↑ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 3, 1912, but not confirmed by the United States Senate.
- ↑ Recess appointment; resigned with no formal nomination having been submitted. Hundley had previously been appointed by recess appointment twice by Taft's predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, and both times his nomination was not confirmed by the United States Senate.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Recess appointment; the United States Senate later rejected the appointment.
- ↑ On January 1, 1912, Smith was reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina.
