List of federal judges appointed by John Tyler

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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President John Tyler during his presidency.All information on the names, terms of service, and details of appointment of federal judges is derived from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public-domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center. In total Tyler appointed 7 Article III federal judges, including 1 Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States and 6 judges to the United States district courts.

Two vacancies occurred on the Supreme Court during Tyler's presidency, as Justices Smith Thompson and Henry Baldwin died in 1843 and 1844, respectively. Tyler put forward five men for Supreme Court confirmation a total of nine times. John C. Spencer, Reuben Walworth, Edward King all had their nominations scuttled more than once, and the full Senate never acted on John M. Read's nomination.{{cite web|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895379_1895421_1895399,00.html|title=Supreme Court Nomination Battles: Tyler's Failures|publisher=Time Magazine|access-date=February 10, 2017}} Tyler's four unsuccessful nominees are the most for any U.S. president to date.{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm |title=Supreme Court Nominations, present–1789 |work=United States Senate Reference |accessdate=April 27, 2014|publisher=United States Senate}}

United States Supreme Court justices

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! Justice

! Seat

! State

! Former justice

! Nomination
date

! Confirmation
date

! Began
active service

! Ended
active service

| {{sortname|Samuel|Nelson}}

| align="center" | {{sort|01|1}}

| New York

| {{sortname|Smith|Thompson}}

| {{dts|1845|02|04}}

| {{dts|1845|02|14}}

| {{dts|1845|02|13}}

| {{dts|1872|11|28}}

District courts

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! Judge

! Court
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! Nomination
date

! Confirmation
date

! Began active
service

! Ended active
service

| {{sortname|Peleg|Sprague|dab=Maine politician}}

| {{sort|Massachusetts|D. Mass.}}

| {{dts|1841|07|15}}

| {{dts|1841|07|16}}

| {{dts|1865|03|13}}

| {{sortname|Theodore Howard|McCaleb}}

| {{sort|Louisiana EW|E.D. La.
W.D. La.}}

| {{dts|1841|09|01}}

| {{dts|1841|09|03}}

| {{dts|1861|01|28}}Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana on February 13, 1845. Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on March 3, 1849.

| {{sortname|Archibald|Randall}}

| {{sort|Pennsylvania E|E.D. Pa.}}

| {{dts|1842|03|03}}

| {{dts|1842|03|08}}

| {{dts|1846|06|08}}

| {{sortname|Samuel|Prentiss}}

| {{sort|Vermont|D. Vt.}}

| {{dts|1842|04|08}}

| {{dts|1857|01|15}}

| {{sortname|Elisha Mills|Huntington}}

| {{sort|Indiana|D. Ind.}}

| {{dts|1842|04|26}}

| {{dts|1842|05|02}}

| {{dts|1862|10|26}}

| {{sortname|James Dandridge|Halyburton}}

| {{sort|Virginia E|E.D. Va.}}

| {{dts|1844|06|15}}

| {{dts|1861|04|24}}

Notes

References

;General

{{cite web|url=http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj |title=Judges of the United States Courts |work=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |accessdate=2009-04-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730115701/http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj |archivedate=2016-07-30 }}

;Specific

Sources

Federal Judicial Center

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