page_title: John Lowell (judge, 1865–1884)
section_title: Federal judicial service
hierarchical_section_title: John Lowell (judge, 1865–1884) / Federal judicial service
caption_attribution_description: English: "Judge John Lowell," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of the estate of Ralph Lowell. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
context_page_description: John Lowell was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the First Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
context_section_description: Lowell was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln on March 11, 1865, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated by Judge Peleg Sprague. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 11, 1865, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on January 9, 1879, due to his elevation to the First Circuit.
  Lowell was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes on December 16, 1878, to a seat on the United States Circuit Courts for the First Circuit vacated by Judge George Foster Shepley. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 18, 1878, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on May 1, 1884, due to his resignation.
caption: Portrait of Lowell by William Morris Hunt, 1872
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