# List of federal judges appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes

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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes during his presidency. In total Hayes made 22 Article III federal judicial appointments, including 2 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 4 judges to the United States circuit courts, and 16 judges to the United States district courts.
Hayes appointed 2 judges to the United States Court of Claims, an Article I tribunal.
* Hayes' most notable judicial appointment was Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.
* Hoyt Henry Wheeler, highly regarded as a Vermont district court judge.

## United States Supreme Court justices

| # | Justice | Seat | State | Former justice | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | John Marshall Harlan | 8 | Kentucky | David Davis | October 16, 1877 | November 29, 1877 | November 29, 1877 | October 14, 1911 |
| 2 | William Burnham Woods | 3 | Ohio | William Strong | December 15, 1880 | December 21, 1880 | December 21, 1880 | May 14, 1887 |
Hayes also nominated Stanley Matthews to the Supreme Court, but the United States Senate did not act on the nomination; Matthews was renominated by Hayes' successor, James A. Garfield, and was confirmed.

## Circuit courts

| # | Judge | Circuit | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | John Baxter | Sixth | October 25, 1877 | December 13, 1877 | December 13, 1877 | April 2, 1886 |
| 2 | Samuel Blatchford | Second | February 15, 1878 | March 4, 1878 | March 4, 1878 | March 22, 1882 |
| 3 | John Lowell | First | December 16, 1878 | December 18, 1878 | December 18, 1878 | May 1, 1884 |
| 4 | George W. McCrary | Eighth | December 1, 1879 | December 9, 1879 | December 9, 1879 | March 18, 1884 |

## District courts

| # | Judge | Court | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | Hoyt Henry Wheeler | D. Vt. | March 15, 1877 | March 16, 1877 | March 16, 1877 | September 30, 1906 |
| 2 | Romanzo Bunn | W.D. Wis. | October 25, 1877 | October 30, 1877 | October 30, 1877 | January 9, 1905 |
| 3 | William Gardner Choate | S.D.N.Y. | March 14, 1878 | March 25, 1878 | March 25, 1878 | June 1, 1881 |
| 4 | Eli Shelby Hammond | W.D. Tenn. | June 15, 1878 | June 17, 1878 | June 17, 1878 | December 17, 1904 |
| 5 | Thomas Leverett Nelson | D. Mass. | January 7, 1879 | January 10, 1879 | January 10, 1879 | November 21, 1897 |
| 6 | Alexander Burton Hagner | D.D.C. | January 17, 1879 | January 21, 1879 | January 21, 1879 | June 1, 1903 |
| 7 | William Butler | E.D. Pa. | February 12, 1879 | February 19, 1879 | February 19, 1879 | January 31, 1899 |
| 8 | Walter Smith Cox | D.D.C. | February 26, 1879 | March 1, 1879 | March 1, 1879 | July 1, 1899 |
| 9 | Andrew Phelps McCormick | N.D. Tex. | April 7, 1879 | April 10, 1879 | April 10, 1879 | March 22, 1892 |
| 10 | Thomas John Morris | D. Md. | July 1, 1879 | July 1, 1879 | July 1, 1879 | June 6, 1912 |
| 11 | Charles Pinckney James | D.D.C. | December 1, 1879 | December 10, 1879 | July 24, 1879 | December 1, 1892 |
| 12 | William Hercules Hays | D. Ky. | December 1, 1879 | December 10, 1879 | September 6, 1879 | March 7, 1880 |
| 13 | Marcus W. Acheson | W.D. Pa. | January 6, 1880 | January 14, 1880 | January 14, 1880 | February 9, 1891 |
| 14 | John W. Barr | D. Ky. | April 9, 1880 | April 16, 1880 | April 16, 1880 | February 21, 1899 |
| 15 | David M. Key | E.D. Tenn. M.D. Tenn. | May 19, 1880 | May 27, 1880 | May 27, 1880 | January 21, 1895 |
| 16 | Ezekiel B. Turner | W.D. Tex. | December 14, 1880 | December 20, 1880 | November 18, 1880 | June 2, 1888 |

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

| # | Judge | Nomination date | Confirmation date | Began active service | Ended active service |
| 1 | Bancroft Davis | December 12, 1877 | December 14, 1877 | December 14, 1877 | December 9, 1881 |
| 2 | William H. Hunt | April 18, 1878 | May 15, 1878 | May 15, 1878 | March 11, 1881 |