Charles C. Nott

Born on September 16, 1827, in Schenectady, New York,{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/nott-charles-cooper|title=Nott, Charles Cooper - Federal Judicial Center|website=www.fjc.gov}} Nott received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1848 from Union College and read law in Albany, New York in 1850. He entered private practice in New York City, New York from 1851 to 1861. He was a captain and colonel in the United States Army from 1861 to 1864 during the American Civil War. He resumed private practice in New York City from 1864 to 1865.

Nott was appointed a captain in the Fremont Hussars, was in the 5th Iowa Cavalry, and the 131st New York Volunteer Infantry and the 176th New York Volunteer Infantry,{{cite book| last=Bennett| first=Marion T.| authorlink=Marion T. Bennett| title=The United States Court of Claims: A History; Part I: The Judges, 1855–1976| location=Washington, D.C.| publisher=Committee on the Bicentennial of Independence and the Constitution of the Judicial Conference of the United States| year=1976}} achieving the rank of colonel.{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | date = March 7, 1916 | title = Charles C. Nott Dies at 88 | url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times/Charles_C._Nott_dies_at_88 |quote=Charles Cooper Nott, former Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims and father of Judge Charles C. of the Special Sessions Court, died yesterday at 151 East Sixty-first Street in his eight-ninth year. President Lincoln, whose close friend he was, appointed Mr. Nott to the Court of Claims in February, 1865, and President Cleveland made him Chief Justice in 1896. When he retired in 1905, he had served forty years in the court. Mr. Nott was born in Schenectady, N. Y., and was a son of Professor Joel B. Nott and a grandson of Eliphalet Nott, President of Union College, from which Mr. Nott was graduated in 1848. After being admitted to the bar he removed to this city in 1850, and practised here until the beginning of the civil war, when he enlisted and was promoted to a Colonelcy. President Lincoln appointed him to the Court of Claims two months before his death. Mr. Nott was the author of several books, his last book, "The Mystery of Pinckney Draught, New York," being published in 1909. In addition he was the author of forty-eight volumes of the Court of Claims Reports.}} He was subsequently captured at the fall of Brashear City, and held as a prisoner of war in Texas for thirteen months.{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | date = November 24, 1896 | title = Judge Nott Promoted: Appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Claims | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/11/24/108263987.pdf}}

Nott was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln on February 21, 1865, to a Judge seat on the Court of Claims (later the United States Court of Claims) vacated by Judge James Hughes. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 22, 1865, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on November 23, 1896, due to his elevation to be Chief Justice of the same court.

Nott received a recess appointment from President Grover Cleveland on November 23, 1896, to the Chief Justice seat on the Court of Claims (later the United States Court of Claims) vacated by Chief Justice William Adams Richardson. He was nominated to the same position by President Cleveland on December 8, 1896. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 15, 1896, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on December 31, 1905, due to his resignation.

Nott wrote the unanimous opinion in Mrs. Lockwood's Case, 9 Ct. Cl. 346 (1874), denying Belva Ann Lockwood admission to the bar of the Court of Claims. She appealed to the United States Supreme Court and lost there as well.

Concurrent with his service on the same court, Nott served as reporter of decisions for the Court of Claims from 1867 to 1914. He was the reporter of decisions of forty-eight volumes of the Court of Claims Reports.

Nott died on March 9, 1916, in New York City.

Nott was the son of Professor Joel B. Nott, a chemist and mineralogist.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}} He was a grandson of Eliphalet Nott, a longtime President of Union College.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}} His son, Charles Cooper Nott Jr., was a judge of the Special Sessions Court.

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• A treatise on the mechanics' lien laws of the state of New York (W. C. Little & co., 1856) {{LCCN|34008900}}
• The coming contraband: a reason against the Emancipation Proclamation, not given by Mr. Justice Curtis, to whom it is addressed, by an officer in the field. (G.P. Putnam, 1862) {{LCCN|57053571}} {{Internet Archive|comingcontraband00nott}}
• Sketches of the war (C.T. Evans, 1863; A.D.F. Randolph, 1865) {{LCCN|02017786}} {{Internet Archive|sketchesofwarser00nottc}}
• Sketches in prison camps (A. D. F. Randolph, 1865) {{LCCN|02001191}} {{Internet Archive|sketchesinprison00nott}}
• The seven great hymns of the mediaeval church (Anson D. F. Randolph, 1866) {{OCLC|43736585}} {{LCCN|02018762}} (New York, E. S. Gorham, 1902) {{Internet Archive|thesevengreathym00unknuoft}} [https://archive.org/details/sevengreathymnso00nottrich][https://archive.org/details/sevengreathymnso00nott][https://archive.org/details/seven00nottgreathymnsorich]
• The Mystery of Pinckney Draught, New York (The Century Co., 1908) {{LCCN|08033815}} {{Internet Archive|mysteryofpinckne00nottrich}}

{{wikisource|The New York Times/Charles C. Nott dies at 88}}

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• [https://archive.org/details/williamrichardson00hackrich A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William Adams Richardson (1898)]
• [http://www.48ovvi.org/oh48cf.html Life in a Texas Prison Pen]

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