predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date term_start appointer signature image article_title term_end name alma_mater
position established seat established seat established james lovell position abolished seat abolished john davis stephen higginson 6 may 1802 newburyport , massachusetts bay , british america roxbury , massachusetts , u.s. federalist chief the first circuit judge of the united states circuit court judge for the first circuit judge of the united states district of court for the district of massachusetts delegate from massachusetts to the the congress of the confederation united states circuit court for 17 june 1743 february 26 , 1789 1782 20 , 1801 february 20 , 1801 september john adams george washington appletons ' lowell john signature.png oldjudgelowell.jpg john lowell
 july 20 , 1801 1783 1 , 1802 july 1 , 1802 february john lowell harvard university
john lowell

john lowell -lrb- june 17 , 1743 , newburyport , massachusetts -- may 6 , 1802 , roxbury , massachusetts -rrb- was an american lawyer , selectman , jurist , delegate to the congress of the confederation and federal judge .
known within his family as `` the old judge , '' distinguishing him from the proliferation of johns , john lowell is considered to be the patriarch of the boston lowells .
he , with each of his three wives , established three distinct lines of the lowell clan that , in turn , propagated celebrated poets , authors , jurists , educators , merchants , bankers , national heroes , activists , innovators and philanthropists .
john lowell , his descendants , and many other well established new england families defined american life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .
