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United States President George Washington appointed 39 Article III United States federal judges during his presidency, [1] which lasted from April 30, 1789, to March 4, 1797. The first group of Washington's appointments—two justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and ten district court judges—began service two days after Congress ...
As the first president, George Washington appointed the entire federal judiciary. His record of eleven Supreme Court appointments still stands. Ronald Reagan appointed 383 federal judges, more than any other president. Following is a list indicating the number of Article III federal judicial appointments made by each president of the United ...
Pages in category "United States federal judges appointed by George Washington" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Supreme Court of the United States was established by the Constitution of the United States.Originally, the Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number of justices at six. . However, as the nation's boundaries grew across the continent and as Supreme Court justices in those days had to ride the circuit, an arduous process requiring long travel on horseback or carriage over harsh terrain that ...
Ona Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848), also known as Oney Judge, was enslaved by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city. [1]
List of federal judges appointed by George Washington; List of federal judges appointed by Woodrow Wilson This page was last ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
United States federal judges appointed by George Washington (39 P) United States federal judges appointed by John Adams (24 P) Pages in category "18th-century American judges"