What key details about john baxter -lrb- judge -rrb- can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: john baxter -lrb- march 5 , 1819 -- april 2 , 1886 -rrb- was an american attorney and jurist who served as a judge on the united states circuit court from 1877 to 1886 . initially a whig , he had previously served several terms in the north carolina house of commons , including one term as speaker , before moving to knoxville , tennessee , to practice law . baxter opposed secession on the eve of the civil war , and was a delegate to the east tennessee convention , which sought to create a separate , union-aligned state in east tennessee . he subsequently took the oath of allegiance to the confederacy , in part to provide legal defense for unionists charged in confederate courts . those he defended during the course of the war included several members of the east tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy and several participants of the great locomotive chase . he ran unsuccessfully for the confederate congress in september 1861 . by mid-1862 , he had returned to his pro-union stance . baxter supported democratic presidential candidate george b. mcclellan in 1864 , but would eventually join the republican party . in 1870 , he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention that created the current tennessee state constitution .
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- death place is hot springs , arkansas , u.s.- appointer is rutherford hayes- resting place is old gray cemetery knoxville , tennessee- successor is howell jackson samuel hill- party is whig -- 1864 -rrb- democratic -lrb- 1864 -- 1872 -rrb- liberal -lrb- republican -lrb- 1972 -- 1876 -rrb- republican -lrb- 1876 -- before 1886 -rrb- 1854 -rrb- constitutional union -lrb- 1860- death date is 2 april 1886- predecessor is halmer emmons james dobbin- office is judge sixth circuit speaker of the north carolina house of representatives of the united states circuit court for the- spouse is orra alexander- term end is april 2 , 1886 1854- term start is december 13 , 1877 1852- birth date is 5 march 1819- name is john baxter- image is baxter-john-judge . jpg- birth place is rutherford county , north carolina , u.s.