United States District Court for the District of Columbia
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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citation
Case citation
Case citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a 'neutral' form which will identify a decision wherever it was reported...

s, D.D.C.) is a federal district court
United States district court
The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...

. Appeals from the District are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit known informally as the D.C. Circuit, is the federal appellate court for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Appeals from the D.C. Circuit, as with all the U.S. Courts of Appeals, are heard on a...

 (except for patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

 claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act
Tucker Act
Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....

, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
-Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...

).

History

The court was established by Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

 in 1863 as the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, replacing the abolished circuit and district courts of the District of Columbia that had been in place since 1801. The court consisted of four justices, including a chief justice
Chief Justice
The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

, and was granted the same powers and jurisdiction
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility...

 as the earlier circuit court. Any of the justices could convene a United States circuit court
United States circuit court
The United States circuit courts were the original intermediate level courts of the United States federal court system. They were established by the Judiciary Act of 1789. They had trial court jurisdiction over civil suits of diversity jurisdiction and major federal crimes. They also had appellate...

 or a local criminal court. In 1936, Congress renamed the court the District Court for the District of Columbia. Its current name was adopted in 1948, and from then on justices were known as judges.

Originally housed in the former District of Columbia City Hall
District of Columbia City Hall
District of Columbia City Hall, also known as Old City Hall and the District of Columbia Courthouse, is a historic building at Judiciary Square in downtown Washington, D.C. Originally built for the offices of the D.C...

, the court now sits in the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse located at 333 Constitution Avenue
Constitution Avenue
In Washington, D.C., Constitution Avenue is a major east-west street running just north of the United States Capitol in the city's Northwest and Northeast quadrants...

, Northwest, Washington, D.C. The District has no local district attorney
District attorney
In many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is an elected or appointed government official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of...

 or equivalent, and so local prosecutorial matters also fall into the jurisdiction of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
The United States Attorney for the District of Columbia is the United States Attorney responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.Because unlike typical municipalities, Washington, D.C...

. Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) are tasked with prosecution of not only federal crimes but also crimes that would normally be left to the state prosecutor's discretion. Because of this the District has the largest U.S. Attorney's Office in the nation, with around 250 AUSAs.

Notable cases

  • United States v. Hubbard
    United States v. Hubbard
    United States v. Hubbard was a 1978 criminal court case charging Mary Sue Hubbard and several other members of the Church of Scientology with violations of various laws including:...

    - 1978 - Charged various members of the Church of Scientology (including L Ron Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard) with conspiracy, theft, obstruction, and several other criminal acts relating the Church's Operation Snow White
    Operation Snow White
    Operation Snow White was the Church of Scientology's name for a conspiracy during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard...

    .

Current judges

  • As of January 31, 2011, a vacancy exists in the District when Judge Ricardo M. Urbina
    Ricardo M. Urbina
    Ricardo M. Urbina is a United States District Court judge in Washington, DC. He has taken senior status.Urbina earned a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1967. He received his law degree from the Law Center at Georgetown University in 1970. He began his legal career as a public defender. He...

     assumed senior status. On July 28, 2011, President Obama nominated Rudolph Contreras
    Rudolph Contreras
    Rudolph Contreras is an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and a current federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.-Early life and education:...

     to fill this vacancy. It is currently pending.

  • As of November 8, 2011 a second vacancy exists when judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. assumed senior status. No replacement nomination is currently pending.

Former judges

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service
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David Kellogg Cartter
David Kellogg Cartter
David Kellogg Cartter was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, and later a diplomat and federal judge.Born in Jefferson County, New York, Cartter pursued preparatory studies, reading law in Rochester, New York to be admitted to the bar there in 1832...

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

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| George P. Fisher
George P. Fisher
George Purnell Fisher was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party and later the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Attorney General of Delaware, as Secretary of State of Delaware, as...

||Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

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| Abram B. Olin
Abram B. Olin
Abram Baldwin Olin was a U.S. Representative from New York, son of Gideon Olin.Born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, Olin attended the common schools, and graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1835. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1838...

||Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

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| Andrew Wylie
Andrew Wylie (judge)
Andrew Wylie was a United States federal judge.Born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Wylie was the eldest son of Andrew Wylie first president of Indiana University. Wylie attended Transylvania University and the University of Indiana, graduating from the latter in 1832...

||Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

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| David Campbell Humphreys
David Campbell Humphreys
David Campbell Humphreys was a United States federal judge.Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Humphreys began the practice of law in Madison County, Alabama. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1843, 1849, 1853, and 1868. He was a planter and in private practice in Huntsville,...

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| Arthur MacArthur, Sr.||Ulysses Grant||||||–||retirement
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| Alexander Burton Hagner
Alexander Burton Hagner
Alexander Burton Hagner was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Hagner attended St. John's College and received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1845 before reading law to enter the Bar in 1848. He was in private practice in Annapolis, Maryland from 1848 to 1879...

||Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...

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| Walter Smith Cox
Walter Smith Cox
Walter Smith Cox was a United States federal judge.Born in Georgetown, District of Columbia, Cox received a B.A. from Georgetown College in 1843, an M.A. from the same institution in 1844, and a B.L. from Harvard Law School in 1847. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C., from 1848 to...

||Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...

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| William Matthew Merrick
William Matthew Merrick
William Matthew Merrick was a United States Circuit Court judge for the District of Columbia and congressman from the fifth district of the state of Maryland.-Early life, career, and family:...

||Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...

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| Martin V. Montgomery
Martin V. Montgomery
Martin Van Buren Montgomery was a United States federal judge.Born in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, Montgomery was in the United States Army during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1862. He read law to enter the bar in 1865. He was in private practice in Eaton Rapids, Michigan from 1865 to 1871...

||Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...

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| Edward Franklin Bingham
Edward Franklin Bingham
Edward Franklin Bingham was a United States federal judge.Born in West Concord, Vermont, Bingham read law in 1850...

||Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...

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| Andrew Coyle Bradley
Andrew Coyle Bradley
Andrew Coyle Bradley was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Bradley received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1867...

||Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

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| Louis E. McComas
Louis E. McComas
Louis Emory McComas , a Republican, was a member of the U.S. Congress from the sixth district of Maryland from 1883 to 1891, and a member of the United States Senate from 1899 to 1905, each time representing the State of Maryland. His granddaughter, Katharine Byron, and great-grandson, Goodloe...

||Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

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| Charles Cleaves Cole
Charles Cleaves Cole
Charles Cleaves Cole was a United States federal judge.Born in Hiram, Maine, Cole read law to enter the bar in 1866, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1867. He was in the United States Army Private, 17th Maine Infantry from 1862 to 1865. He was in private practice in Portland, Maine from...

||Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

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| Harry M. Clabaugh
Harry M. Clabaugh
Harry M. Clabaugh was a United States federal judge.Born in Cumberland, Maryland, Clabaugh received an LL.B. from the University of Maryland in 1878. He was in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1880, and in Carroll County, Maryland from 1880 to 1904. He was a Chairman of the...

||William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

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| Job Barnard
Job Barnard
Job Barnard was a United States federal judge.Born in Porter County, Indiana, Barnard served in the United States Army during the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, and then received an LL.B. from the University of Michigan in 1867. He was in private practice in Crown Point, Indiana from 1867...

||William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

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| Thomas H. Anderson
Thomas H. Anderson (1848-1916)
Thomas H. Anderson was a United States federal judge.Anderson was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and attended Mount Union College. He was a high school principal, Cambridge, Ohio in 1871. He was in private practice of law in Cambridge, Ohio from 1871 to 1889. He was a U.S. Minister to Bolivia from...

||William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

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| Ashley Mulgrave Gould
Ashley Mulgrave Gould
Ashley Mulgrave Gould was a United States federal judge.Born in Lower Horton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Gould received an A.B. from Amherst College in 1881 and an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1884...

||Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| Harry M. Clabaugh
Harry M. Clabaugh
Harry M. Clabaugh was a United States federal judge.Born in Cumberland, Maryland, Clabaugh received an LL.B. from the University of Maryland in 1878. He was in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1880, and in Carroll County, Maryland from 1880 to 1904. He was a Chairman of the...

||Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| Jeter Connelly Pritchard
Jeter Connelly Pritchard
Jeter Connelly Pritchard was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1895 and 1903. He was the only Republican to represent a southern state in the United States Senate during that time....

||Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| Daniel Thew Wright
Daniel Thew Wright
Daniel Thew Wright was a United States federal judge.Wright was born in Riverside, Ohio. He received an LL.B. from University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1887. He was in private practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1887 to the present...

||Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| Wendell Phillips Stafford
Wendell Phillips Stafford
Wendell Phillips Stafford was a United States federal judge.Born in Barre, Vermont, Stafford received an LL.B. from Boston University in 1883 and went into private practice in St. Johnsbury, Vermont....

||Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| James Harry Covington
James Harry Covington
James Harry Covington, II was an American jurist and politician. He represented the Maryland's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1909 to 1914, and served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from 1914 to 1918.Covington was...

||Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Walter I. McCoy
Walter I. McCoy
Walter Irving McCoy was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 8th congressional district from 1911 to 1913, and the 9th district from 1913 to 1914....

||Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Frederick Lincoln Siddons
Frederick Lincoln Siddons
Frederick Lincoln Siddons was a United States federal judge.Born in London, England, Siddons received an LL.B. from Columbian University in 1887 and an LL.M. from that institution in 1888. He was a Professor of Law at National University beginning in 1898. He worked for the U.S...

||Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| William Hitz
William Hitz
William Hitz was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Hitz received his undergraduate education from Harvard College. He then received a LL.B from Georgetown University Law School in 1900. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1900 to 1914. He was a Special...

||Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Thomas Jennings Bailey
Thomas Jennings Bailey
Thomas Jennings Bailey was a United States federal judge.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Bailey received an A.B. from Southwestern University in 1884, an A.M. from Southwestern University in 1885, and a B.L. from Vanderbilt University in 1890...

||Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Walter I. McCoy
Walter I. McCoy
Walter Irving McCoy was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 8th congressional district from 1911 to 1913, and the 9th district from 1913 to 1914....

||Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr.
Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr.
Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hoehling received an LL.B. from Columbian University in 1889 and an LL.M. from Columbian University in 1890. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C...

||Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

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| Peyton Gordon
Peyton Gordon
Peyton Gordon was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Gordon received an LL.B. from Columbian University in 1890 and an LL.M. from the same institution in 1891. He was an Assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from 1891 to 1904. He was a Pardon attorney from 1904...

||Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

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| Alfred Adams Wheat
Alfred Adams Wheat
Alfred Adams Wheat was a United States federal judge.Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Wheat received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1889 and an LL.B. from Columbian University in 1891. He was in private practice in New York City from 1893 to 1922. He was a special assistant to U.S...

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Alfred Adams Wheat
Alfred Adams Wheat
Alfred Adams Wheat was a United States federal judge.Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Wheat received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1889 and an LL.B. from Columbian University in 1891. He was in private practice in New York City from 1893 to 1922. He was a special assistant to U.S...

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Jesse Corcoran Adkins
Jesse Corcoran Adkins
Jesse Corcoran Adkins was a United States federal judge.Adkins was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He received his LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1899, and received his LL.M. from the same institution in 1900. He was an assistant U.S. attorney of Washington, D.C. from 1905 to 1908....

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Oscar Raymond Luhring
Oscar Raymond Luhring
Oscar Raymond Luhring was a United States federal judge.Born in Gibson County, Indiana, Luhring received a B.L. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1900. He was in private practice in Evansville, Indiana from 1900 to the present. He was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives...

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Joseph Winston Cox
Joseph Winston Cox
Joseph Winston Cox was a United States federal judge.Born in Bridle Creek, Virginia, Cox received an LL.B. from George Washington University Law School in 1901. He was in private practice in Washington, DC from 1901 to 1930. He was an Instructor, Georgetown University Law School from 1913 to 1915....

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| James McPherson Proctor
James McPherson Proctor
James McPherson Proctor was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Proctor received an LL.B. from George Washington University Law School in 1904. He was an assistant United States Attorney of the District of Columbia from 1905 to 1913, becoming the chief assistant U.S. attorney...

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| F. Dickinson Letts
F. Dickinson Letts
Fred Dickinson Letts was a three-term Republican U.S. Representative from eastern Iowa, and a thirty-year federal trial court judge in the District of Columbia.-Life and work:...

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Daniel William O'Donoghue
Daniel William O'Donoghue
Daniel William O'Donoghue was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., O'Donoghue received an A.B. from Georgetown College in 1897, an A.M. from Georgetown College in 1898, a Ph.D. from Georgetown College in 1899, an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1899, and an LL.M....

||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Bolitha James Laws
Bolitha James Laws
Bolitha James Laws was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Laws received an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1913, and an LL.M. from the same institution in 1914. He was an assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1914 to 1920...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Thomas Alan Goldsborough
Thomas Alan Goldsborough
Thomas Alan Goldsborough was a U.S. jurist and politician.Goldsborough was born in Greensboro, Maryland. He attended the public schools and the local academy at Greensboro, later graduating from Washington College of Chestertown, Maryland, in 1899...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| James Ward Morris
James Ward Morris
James Ward Morris was a United States federal judge.Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, Morris received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1912. He attended the University of North Carolina School of Law, but read law to enter the bar in 1913. He was in private practice in Tampa,...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| David Andrew Pine
David Andrew Pine
David Andrew Pine was a United States district court judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Pine earned an LL.B. at the Georgetown University Law School in 1913, then clerked for clerk to U.S. Attorney General James McReynolds from 1914 to 1916. He was an attorney for the U.S...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Matthew Francis McGuire
Matthew Francis McGuire
Matthew Francis McGuire was a United States federal judge.Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, McGuire received an A.B. from Holy Cross College in 1921 and an LL.B. from Boston University School of Law in 1926. He was in the United States Navy in 1918. He was in private practice in...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Edward C. Eicher
Edward C. Eicher
Edward C. Eicher was a three-term congressman, federal securities regulator, and federal district court judge during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was considered a consummate "New Deal" liberal....

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Henry Albert Schweinhaut
Henry Albert Schweinhaut
Henry Albert Schweinhaut was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Schweinhaut received an LL.B. from that city's National University Law School in 1924. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C., from 1924 to 1934. He was a Lecturer on evidence and agency, Washington...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Bolitha James Laws
Bolitha James Laws
Bolitha James Laws was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Laws received an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1913, and an LL.M. from the same institution in 1914. He was an assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1914 to 1920...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Alexander Holtzoff
Alexander Holtzoff
Alexander Holtzoff was a United States federal judge.Born in New York, New York, Holtzoff received an A.B. from Columbia University in 1908, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1909, and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1911...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Richmond Bowling Keech
Richmond Bowling Keech
Richmond Bowling Keech was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Keech received a LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1922 and a LL.M. from Georgetown University Law School in 1923. U.S. Navy, Transport Service, World War I. He was in private practice in Washington, DC...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Edward Matthew Curran
Edward Matthew Curran
Edward Matthew Curran was a United States federal judge.Born in Bangor, Maine, Curran received an LL.B. from Catholic University of America School of Law in 1927 and an A.B. from the University of Maine in 1928. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1928 to 1934...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Edward Allen Tamm
Edward Allen Tamm
Edward Allen Tamm was a United States federal judge.Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Tamm earned an LL.B. from the Georgetown University Law School in 1930. From 1930 to 1948 he was deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Charles F. McLaughlin
Charles F. McLaughlin
Charles Francis McLaughlin was a Nebraska Democratic politician.Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he graduated from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1908 and the law department of Columbia University, New York City in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and set up practice in Omaha, Nebraska. He...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| James Robert Kirkland
James Robert Kirkland
James Robert Kirkland was a United States federal judge.Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Kirkland received an A.B. from George Washington University in 1927, an LL.B. from George Washington University Law School in 1928, and an LL.M. from George Washington University Law School in 1929. He received a...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Burnita Shelton Matthews
Burnita Shelton Matthews
Burnita Shelton Matthews was a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was the first woman appointed to serve on a U.S...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Walter Maximillian Bastian
Walter Maximillian Bastian
Walter Maximillian Bastian was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Bastian received an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1913. He served as a first lieutenant in chemical warfare service during World War I. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C., from 1915...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

||||||–||reappointment
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| Luther Youngdahl
Luther Youngdahl
Luther Wallace Youngdahl was an American politician and judge from Minnesota. He served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1942 to 1946, then as Minnesota's 27th Governor from January 8, 1947 to September 27, 1951, and finally as a judge for the U.S...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Joseph Charles McGarraghy
Joseph Charles McGarraghy
Joseph Charles McGarraghy was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., McGarraghy was in the United States Army from 1917 to 1920, and received an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1921. He was an Assistant corporation counsel from 1924 to 1925. He was in private...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| John Sirica
John Sirica
John Joseph Sirica was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role in the Watergate scandal...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| George Luzerne Hart, Jr.
George Luzerne Hart, Jr.
George Luzerne Hart, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Hart received an A.B. from Virginia Military Institute in 1927 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1930. He was in private practice in Washington, DC from 1930 to 1940. He was in the United States Army...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Leonard Patrick Walsh
Leonard Patrick Walsh
Leonard Patrick Walsh was a United States federal judge.Born in Superior, Wisconsin, Walsh received an LL.B. from National University Law School, Washington, DC in 1933. He was in private practice in Washington, DC from 1933 to 1953. He was a Chief judge, Municipal Court for the District of...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| William Blakely Jones
William Blakely Jones
William Blakely Jones was a United States federal judge.Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Jones received an A.B. from the University of Notre Dame in 1928 and an LL.B. from Notre Dame Law School in 1931. He was in private practice in Helena, Montana from 1931 to 1937. He was a Special assistant state...

||John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Spottswood William Robinson III
Spottswood William Robinson III
Spottswood William Robinson III was an educator, civil rights attorney and judge.In the early 1950s, Robinson and his law-partner Oliver Hill litigated several civil rights lawsuits in Virginia. In 1951, Robinson and Hill took up the cause of the African American students at the segregated R.R...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Howard Francis Corcoran
Howard Francis Corcoran
Howard Francis Corcoran was a United States federal judge.Born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Corcoran received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1928 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1931. He was a Department of Agriculture from 1933 to 1934. He was a Tennessee Valley Authority from 1934...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| William Benson Bryant
William Benson Bryant
William Benson Bryant was a United States federal judge.Born in Wetumpka, Alabama, Bryant received an A.B. from Howard University in 1932 and an LL.B. from Howard University School of Law in 1936. He was in the United States Army during World War II, from 1943 to 1947. He was in private practice...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Oliver Gasch
Oliver Gasch
Oliver Gasch was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C.., Gasch received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1928 and an LL.B. from George Washington University Law School in 1932. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1932. He was an Assistant corporation counsel,...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.
Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr.
Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Madison, New Jersey, Robinson received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1943, then served in the United States Army until 1946, receiving an LL.B. from Cornell Law School in 1947. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| John Lewis Smith Jr.
John Lewis Smith Jr.
John Lewis Smith Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Smith received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1935, an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1938, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law School in 1939. He was an Assistant U.S. attorney for the...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Joseph Cornelius Waddy
Joseph Cornelius Waddy
Joseph Cornelius Waddy was a United States federal judge.Born in Louisa County, Virginia, Waddy received an A.B. from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1935 and an LL.B. from Howard University School of Law in 1938. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1939 to 1962...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Gerhard Alden Gesell
Gerhard Alden Gesell
Gerhard Alden Gesell was a United States federal judge.Born in Los Angeles, California, Gesell received an A.B. from Yale University in 1932 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1935. He was a Trial attorney of Securities and Exchange Commission from 1935 to 1940...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| June Lazenby Green
June Lazenby Green
June Lazenby Green was a United States federal judge.Born in Arnold, Maryland, Green received a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 1941. She was a Claims adjuster, Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company, Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 43...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| John H. Pratt
John H. Pratt
John Helm Pratt John Helm Pratt John Helm Pratt (November 17, 1910, Portsmouth, New Hampshire-August 11, 1995, Chevy Chase, Maryland, was an American judge.He was educated at Harvard University, graduating A.B. in 1930, and it Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1934). He was in private legal practice in...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Barrington D. Parker
Barrington D. Parker
Barrington Daniels Parker, Sr. was a United States federal judge in the District of Columbia.Parker was born in Rosslyn, Virginia; his father was dean of the now-closed Terrell Law School in Washington, D.C. He attended Dunbar High School in Washington, and graduated from Lincoln University in...

||Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| Charles Robert Richey
Charles Robert Richey
Charles Robert Richey was a United States federal judge. When fairly new to the federal bench, he presided over the civil case related to Watergate and embroiled himself in controversy for his communications with the Nixon Administration and the judicial decisions that followed.-Early life,...

||Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| Thomas Aquinas Flannery
Thomas Aquinas Flannery
Thomas Aquinas Flannery was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Flannery received an LL.B. from Catholic University of America School of Law in 1940. He was in private practice in Washington, DC from 1940 to 1942. He was in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945...

||Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| Harold H. Greene
Harold H. Greene
Harold Herman Greene was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia...

||Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| John Garrett Penn
John Garrett Penn
John Garrett Penn was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Penn attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He received an A.B. from the University of Massachusetts in 1954. He received an LL.B. from Boston University...

||Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| Norma Holloway Johnson
Norma Holloway Johnson
Norma Holloway Johnson was a former United States federal judge, and the first African American woman to serve as a US District Court Chief Judge....

||Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| Thomas Penfield Jackson
Thomas Penfield Jackson
Thomas Penfield Jackson is a former United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia....

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Stanley S. Harris
Stanley S. Harris
Stanley S. Harris is a former United States federal judge.Born in Washington, D.C., Harris was in the United States Army in the aftermath of World War II, from 1945 to 1947. He received a B.S. from the University of Virginia in 1951 and an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| George Hughes Revercomb
George Hughes Revercomb
George Hughes Revercomb was a United States federal judge.-Early life:Revercomb was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on June 3, 1929, where he lived with his parents and extended family for his entire childhood....

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Stanley Sporkin
Stanley Sporkin
Stanley Sporkin is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge June Lazenby Green on April 5, 1985 by President Ronald Reagan, and was confirmed by the Senate on December 16; he received his commission the next day...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Michael Boudin
Michael Boudin
Michael Boudin is a Judge and former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.Boudin was born in New York City, the son of the civil liberties attorney Leonard Boudin and older brother of Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin. He received a B.A. from Harvard...

||George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

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| James Robertson
James Robertson (judge)
James Robertson is a United States federal judge serving on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Robertson graduated from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, and received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1959. He served in the United States...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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