# List of federal judges appointed by Ulysses S. Grant

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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

| # | Justice | Seat | State | Former justice | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | William Strong | 3 | Pennsylvania | Robert Cooper Grier | February 7, 1870 | February 18, 1870 | February 18, 1870 | December 14, 1880 |
| 2 | Joseph P. Bradley | 10 | New Jersey | Seat established | February 7, 1870 | March 21, 1870 | March 21, 1870 | January 22, 1892 |
| 3 | Ward Hunt | 1 | New York | Samuel Nelson | December 3, 1872 | December 11, 1872 | December 11, 1872 | January 27, 1882 |
| 4 | Morrison Waite | Chief | Connecticut | Salmon P. Chase | January 19, 1874 | January 21, 1874 | January 21, 1874 | March 23, 1888 |

## Circuit courts

| # | Judge | Circuit | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | John Forrest Dillon | Eighth | December 9, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | September 1, 1879 |
| 2 | Thomas Drummond | Seventh | December 8, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | July 18, 1884 |
| 3 | William McKennan | Third | December 8, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | January 3, 1891 |
| 4 | George Foster Shepley | First | December 8, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | July 20, 1878 |
| 5 | Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff | Second | December 8, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | September 10, 1875 |
| 6 | William Burnham Woods | Fifth | December 8, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | December 22, 1869 | December 23, 1880 |
| 7 | Lorenzo Sawyer | Ninth | December 8, 1869 | January 10, 1870 | January 10, 1870 | September 7, 1891 |
| 8 | Halmor Hull Emmons | Sixth | January 10, 1870 | January 17, 1870 | January 17, 1870 | May 14, 1877 |
| 9 | Hugh Lennox Bond | Fourth | April 6, 1870 | July 13, 1870 | July 13, 1870 | October 24, 1893 |
| 10 | Alexander S. Johnson | Second | December 15, 1875 | December 15, 1875 | October 25, 1875 | January 26, 1878 |

## District courts

| # | Judge | Court | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | Walter Q. Gresham | D. Ind. | December 6, 1869 | December 21, 1869 | September 1, 1869 | April 9, 1883 |
| 2 | John Power Knowles | D.R.I. | December 6, 1869 | January 24, 1870 | October 9, 1869 | March 21, 1881 |
| 3 | Edgar Winters Hillyer | D. Nev. | December 15, 1869 | December 21, 1869 | December 21, 1869 | May 10, 1882 |
| 4 | Henry Williams Blodgett | N.D. Ill. | January 10, 1870 | January 11, 1870 | January 11, 1870 | December 5, 1892 |
| 5 | John W. Longyear | E.D. Mich. | February 7, 1870 | February 18, 1870 | February 18, 1870 | March 10, 1875 |
| 6 | John T. Nixon | D.N.J. | April 28, 1870 | April 29, 1870 | April 28, 1870 | September 28, 1889 |
| 7 | David Campbell Humphreys | D.D.C. | April 22, 1870 | May 10, 1870 | May 13, 1870 | July 12, 1879 |
| 8 | James C. Hopkins | W.D. Wis. | July 1, 1870 | July 9, 1870 | July 9, 1870 | September 3, 1877 |
| 9 | Arthur MacArthur Sr. | D.D.C. | July 15, 1870 | July 15, 1870 | July 15, 1870 | April 1, 1887 |
| 10 | Joel C. C. Winch | E.D. Tex. | December 15, 1870 | – | October 11, 1870 | March 3, 1871 |
| 11 | John McKinney | S.D. Fla. | December 7, 1870 | February 18, 1871 | November 8, 1870 | October 12, 1871 |
| 12 | Alexander Rives | W.D. Va. | February 3, 1871 | February 6, 1871 | February 6, 1871 | August 1, 1882 |
| 13 | William Story | W.D. Ark. | March 3, 1871 | March 3, 1871 | March 3, 1871 | June 17, 1874 |
| 14 | Philip Bergen Swing | S.D. Ohio | March 29, 1871 | March 30, 1871 | March 30, 1871 | October 31, 1882 |
| 15 | Edward Green Bradford | D. Del. | December 11, 1871 | December 12, 1871 | December 12, 1871 | January 16, 1884 |
| 16 | James William Locke | S.D. Fla. | January 15, 1872 | February 1, 1872 | February 1, 1872 | July 4, 1912 |
| 17 | Amos Morrill | E.D. Tex. | January 18, 1872 | February 5, 1872 | February 5, 1872 | October 18, 1883 |
| 18 | Robert P. Dick | W.D.N.C. | June 7, 1872 | June 7, 1872 | June 7, 1872 | July 6, 1898 |
| 19 | Nathaniel Shipman | D. Conn. | December 2, 1873 | December 8, 1873 | April 16, 1873 | March 22, 1892 |
| 20 | Martin Welker | N.D. Ohio | December 2, 1873 | December 8, 1873 | November 25, 1873 | June 1, 1889 |
| 21 | James Henry Howe | E.D. Wis. | December 9, 1873 | December 11, 1873 | December 11, 1873 | January 1, 1875 |
| 22 | Robert William Hughes | E.D. Va. | December 15, 1873 | January 14, 1874 | January 14, 1874 | February 22, 1898 |
| 23 | Cassius Gaius Foster | D. Kan. | March 9, 1874 | March 10, 1874 | March 10, 1874 | February 28, 1899 |
| 24 | William James Wallace | N.D.N.Y. | April 2, 1874 | April 7, 1874 | April 7, 1874 | April 25, 1882 |
| 25 | Charles E. Dyer | E.D. Wis. | February 10, 1875 | February 10, 1875 | February 10, 1875 | May 18, 1888 |
| 26 | John Bruce | M.D. Ala. N.D. Ala. S.D. Ala. | February 23, 1875 | February 27, 1875 | February 27, 1875 | October 1, 1901 October 1, 1901 August 2, 1886 |
| 27 | Henry Billings Brown | E.D. Mich. | March 17, 1875 | March 19, 1875 | March 19, 1875 | December 30, 1890 |
| 28 | Isaac C. Parker | W.D. Ark. | March 18, 1875 | March 19, 1875 | March 19, 1875 | November 17, 1896 |
| 29 | Edward Coke Billings | D. La./E.D. La. | January 10, 1876 | February 10, 1876 | February 10, 1876 | December 1, 1893 |
| 30 | Winthrop Welles Ketcham | W.D. Pa. | June 7, 1876 | June 26, 1876 | June 26, 1876 | December 6, 1879 |
| 31 | Moses Hallett | D. Colo. | January 9, 1877 | January 12, 1877 | January 12, 1877 | April 7, 1906 |
| 32 | Thomas Settle | N.D. Fla. | January 26, 1877 | January 30, 1877 | January 30, 1877 | December 1, 1888 |

## Specialty courts (Article I)
### United States Court of Claims

| # | Judge | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | Charles D. Drake | December 12, 1870 | December 12, 1870 | December 12, 1870 | December 12, 1885 |
| 2 | William Adams Richardson | June 1, 1874 | June 2, 1874 | June 2, 1874 | January 20, 1885 |