List of federal judges appointed by John Tyler explained

Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President John Tyler during his presidency.^[1] In total Tyler appointed 7 Article III federal judges, including 1 Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States and 6 judges to the United States district courts.

Two vacancies occurred on the Supreme Court during Tyler's presidency, as Justices Smith Thompson and Henry Baldwin died in 1843 and 1844, respectively. Tyler put forward five men for Supreme Court confirmation a total of nine times. John C. Spencer, Reuben Walworth, Edward King all had their nominations scuttled more than once, and the full Senate never acted on John M. Read's nomination.^[2] Tyler's four unsuccessful nominees are the most for any U.S. president to date.^[3]

Notes

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. Web site: Supreme Court Nomination Battles: Tyler's Failures. Time Magazine. February 10, 2017.
3. Web site: Supreme Court Nominations, present–1789 . United States Senate Reference . April 27, 2014. United States Senate.
4. See List of United States district and territorial courts
5. Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana on February 13, 1845. Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on March 3, 1849.

References

General

• Web site: Judges of the United States Courts . . . 2009-04-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160730115701/http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj . 2016-07-30 .

Specific

Sources

• Federal Judicial Center