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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant during his presidency. In total Grant appointed 46 Article III federal judges, making him the first president to appoint more federal judges than George Washington. Grant's appointments included 4 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 10 judges to the United States circuit courts, and 32 judges to the United States district courts. Grant also appointed Edwin M. Stanton to the Supreme Court in 1869; Stanton was confirmed and his commission was issued, but died before he could accept his commission and take his seat.

Grant appointed 2 judges to the United States Court of Claims, an Article I tribunal.

• Grant appointed Morrison Remick Waite to be Chief Justice of the United States.
• Moses Hallett was appointed by Grant to be the first judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
• James William Locke served as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida for forty years, the longest tenure of any Grant appointee.

United States Supreme Court justices

Circuit courts

District courts

Specialty courts (Article I)

United States Court of Claims

Notes

1. See List of United States district and territorial courts

Renominations

1. Renominated on July 9, 1870.

References

General

• "Judges of the United States Courts". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Federal Judicial Center. Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2009-04-03.

Specific

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. ^ Elevated
3. ^ Reassigned by operation of law to serve on both the United States circuit court and the corresponding United States Court of Appeals on June 16, 1891.
4. Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 15, 1875, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 15, 1875, and received commission on December 15, 1875.
5. Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 6, 1869, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 21, 1869, and received commission on December 21, 1869.
6. Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 6, 1869, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 1870, and received commission on January 24, 1870.
7. Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 15, 1870, but the United States Senate did not confirm the appointment.
8. Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 7, 1870, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 18, 1871, and received commission on February 18, 1871.
9. ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 2, 1873, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 8, 1873, and received commission on December 8, 1873.
10. On August 2, 1886, Bruce's service on the Southern District of Alabama was terminated; he continued to sit on the Northern and Middle Districts.
11. Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on March 3, 1881.
12. Laterally appointed Chief Justice of the same court on January 20, 1885.

Sources

• Federal Judicial Center

• Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
• Lists of United States judicial appointments by president
• United States federal judges appointed by Ulysses S. Grant