| Edward Dumbauld | |
| Office: | Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania |
| Term Start: | December 31, 1976 |
| Term End: | September 6, 1997 |
| Office1: | Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania |
| Term Start1: | August 3, 1961 |
| Term End1: | December 31, 1976 |
| Appointer1: | John F. Kennedy |
| Predecessor1: | Seat established by 75 Stat. 80 |
| Successor1: | Gustave Diamond |
| Birth Name: | Edward Dumbauld |
| Birth Date: | 26 October 1905 |
| Birth Place: | Uniontown, Pennsylvania |
| Death Place: | Uniontown, Pennsylvania |
| Education: | Princeton University (A.B.) Leiden University (J.D.) |
Edward Dumbauld (October 26, 1905 – September 6, 1997) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Dumbauld received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Princeton University in 1926, a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1929, and a Master of Laws from the same institution in 1930. He received a Juris Doctor from the Leiden University in The Netherlands on June 17, 1932.[1] He was in private practice in Uniontown from 1933 to 1935. From 1936 to 1949, he served as a special assistant in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. He returned to private practice in Uniontown from 1949 to 1957, when he became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Uniontown, serving until 1961.
On August 2, 1961, Dumbauld was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania created by 75 Stat. 80. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 2, 1961, receiving his commission on August 3, 1961. He assumed senior status on December 31, 1976, serving in that capacity until his death on September 6, 1997, in Uniontown.
In addition to his legal and judicial duties, Dumbauld wrote extensively for scholars and general readers about the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, the United States Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution and United States Bill of Rights, as well as the Renaissance legal philosopher and treatise-writer Hugo Grotius. He was a longtime member of the American Society for Legal History.
His books, many of them standards of American legal-historical literature, include: