United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (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, W.D. Pa.) sits in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

, Erie

Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie is a city located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Named for the lake and the Native American tribe that resided along its southern shore, Erie is the state's fourth-largest city , with a population of 102,000...

, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County...

. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. The Honorable Judge Gary L. Lancaster

Gary L. Lancaster

Gary L. Lancaster is a United States federal judge.Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Lancaster received a B.S. from Slippery Rock State College in 1971 and a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1974. He was a Regional counsel, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission from 1974...

is currently Chief Judge of the Western Pennsylvania District. Steven Richard Frank is currently the nominee of President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

(as of June 2011) to be the United States Marshal for the Western Pennsylvania District Court. Appeals from this court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts:* District of Delaware* District of New Jersey...

(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 United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania

United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania

The following are former United States district courts, which ceased to exist because they were subdivided into smaller units. With the exception of California, each of these courts initially covered an entire U.S. state, and was subdivided as the jurisdictions which they covered increased in...

was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789

Judiciary Act of 1789

The United States Judiciary Act of 1789 was a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary...

, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. It was subdivided on April 20, 1818, by 3 Stat. 462, into the Eastern

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is one of the original 13 federal judiciary districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789...

and Western Districts to be headquartered in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

and Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

, respectively. Portions of these districts were subsequently subdivided into the Middle

United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is district level federal court with jurisdiction over approximately one half of Pennsylvania...

District on March 2, 1901, by 31 Stat. 880. At the time of its initial subdivision, presiding judge Richard Peters, Jr.

Richard Peters (Continental Congress)

Richard Peters sometimes Richard Peters, Jr., to distinguish from his uncle, though this can also mean his son Richard), was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783...

was reassigned to only the Eastern District. This made it possible for President James Monroe

James Monroe

James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...

to appoint Jonathan Hoge Walker

Jonathan Hoge Walker

Jonathan Hoge Walker was a United States federal judge.A soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, Walker graduated from Dickinson College in 1787 and read law to enter the bar in 1790. He was in private practice in Northumberland, Pennsylvania from 1790 to 1806...

as the first judge of the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Current judges

Former judges

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
Marcus Wilson Acheson Marcus Wilson Acheson Marcus Wilson Acheson was a United States federal judge.Acheson was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. from Washington College in 1845. He read law, and was thereafter in private practice of law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1852 to 1880.Acheson was nominated by President...	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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| Joseph Buffington

Joseph Buffington

Joseph Buffington was a United States federal judge.Born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania to Ephraim and Margaret Chambers Buffington, and nephew to a well-known Pennsylvania judge of the same name, Buffington received an A.B. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1875...

||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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| Owen McIntosh Burns

Owen McIntosh Burns

Owen McIntosh Burns was a United States federal judge.Burns was born in Danville, Illinois. He received an A.B. from the University of Illinois in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army infantry, holding the rank of Captain. He received an LL.B. from the University of Illinois College...

||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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| Robert J. Cindrich

Robert J. Cindrich

Robert James Cindrich is a former U.S. district judge and a former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.- Early life and education :...

||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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| Edward Dumbauld

Edward Dumbauld

Edward Dumbauld was a United States federal judge and a distinguished legal scholar and legal and constitutional historian....

||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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| Nathaniel Ewing

Nathaniel Ewing

Nathaniel Ewing was a United States federal judge.Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Ewing received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1869 and an A.M. from Princeton University in 1872. He was in private practice in Uniontown, Pennsylvania from 1871 to 1887...

||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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| Frederick Voris Follmer

Frederick Voris Follmer

Frederick Voris Follmer was a United States federal judge.Born in Milton, Pennsylvania, Follmer received an A.B. from Bucknell University in 1906 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1909. He was in private practice in Pennsylvania from 1910 to 1935. He was an Assistant district attorney of...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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| Robert Murray Gibson

Robert Murray Gibson

Robert Murray Gibson was a United States federal judge.Born in Duncansville, Pennsylvania, Gibson received an A.B. from Washington and Jefferson College in 1889 and read law to enter the bar in 1894. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 1904 to...

||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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| Wallace Samuel Gourley

Wallace Samuel Gourley

Wallace Samuel Gourley was a United States federal judge.Born in Wellsville, Ohio, Gourley received an LL.B. from Ohio State University College of Law in 1929. He was in private practice in Washington, Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1936. He was an Investigator, Retail Credit Company, Washington,...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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| Thomas Hardiman||George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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| Thomas Irwin

Thomas Irwin

Thomas Irwin was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and later a United States federal judge....

||Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

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| Winthrop Welles Ketcham||Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

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| William W. Knox

William W. Knox

William W. Knox was a United States federal judge.Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Knox received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1932 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1935...

||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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| Donald J. Lee

Donald J. Lee

Donald J. Lee was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lee was in the United States Navy in the aftermath of World War II, from 1945 to 1947. He received an A.B. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1950 and an LL.B. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1954...

||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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| Timothy K. Lewis

Timothy K. Lewis

Timothy K. Lewis , is a former federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and is currently an attorney at the law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP, where he serves as the co-chair of the firm's appellate practice. He also he also serves as a mediator,...

||George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

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| Carol Los Mansmann

Carol Los Mansmann

Carol Los Mansmann was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mansmann received a B.A. from Duquesne University in 1964 and a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1967. She was a law clerk to Ralph H. Smith, Jr...

||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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| Rabe Ferguson Marsh, Jr.

Rabe Ferguson Marsh, Jr.

Rabe Ferguson Marsh, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Marsh received an A.B. from Lafayette College in 1927 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1930. He was in private practice in Greensburg from 1930 to 1950...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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| Wilson McCandless

Wilson McCandless

Wilson McCandless was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, McCandless received a B.A. from Western University in 1826 and read law to enter the Bar in 1831...

||James Buchanan

James Buchanan

James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century....

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| Barron Patterson McCune

Barron Patterson McCune

Barron Patterson McCune was a United States federal judge.He was born in West Newton, Pennsylvania in 1915 and attended Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. As a student, he submitted jokes told by history professor Dr. Alfred Sweet to Judge magazine, splitting the $2...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| John Wilson McIlvaine

John Wilson McIlvaine

John Wilson McIlvaine was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, McIlvaine received a B.S. from Washington and Jefferson College in 1928 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1932. He was in private practice in Washington, Pennsylvania from 1932...

||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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| Nelson McVicar

Nelson McVicar

Nelson McVicar was a United States federal judge.Born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, McVicar attended the University of Michigan Law School and read law to enter the bar in 1896. He was in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1896 to 1925. He was a Borough solicitor, Tarentum Borough,...

||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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| Glenn Everell Mencer

Glenn Everell Mencer

Glenn Everell Mencer was a United States federal judge.Mencer was born in Smethport, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from University of Michigan in 1949 and his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 1952. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to...

||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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| John Lester Miller

John Lester Miller

John Lester Miller was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Miller received a B.S. from Westminster College in 1923 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1926. He was in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1926 to 1954.On March 29,...

||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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| Charles Prentiss Orr

Charles Prentiss Orr

Charles Prentiss Orr was a United States federal judge.Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Orr received an A.B. from Hamilton College in 1879 and read law to enter the bar in 1881. He was in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1886 to 1909.On March 25, 1909, Orr was nominated by...

||William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

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| James Hay Reed

James Hay Reed

James Hay Reed, Sr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Reed received an A.M. from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1872 and read law to enter the bar in 1875...

||Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

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| Louis Rosenberg

Louis Rosenberg

-Biography:Rosenberg was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He received an LL.B. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1923. He was a special counsel, Allegheny County Emergency Relief in 1935. He was a Special deputy attorney general of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1936 to 1939. He was a...

||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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| Ralph Francis Scalera

Ralph Francis Scalera

Ralph Francis Scalera is a former United States federal judge.Born in Midland, Pennsylvania, Scalera received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1952 and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1955. He was in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957. He was in private practice...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Frederic Palen Schoonmaker

Frederic Palen Schoonmaker

Frederic Palen Schoonmaker was a United States federal judge.Born in Limestone, New York, Schoonmaker received an A.B. from Cornell University in 1891 and read law to enter the bar in 1894. He was in private practice in Bradford, Pennsylvania from 1894 to 1913. He was a Captain, Pennsylvania...

||Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

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| D. Brooks Smith

D. Brooks Smith

David Brookman Smith , known professionally as D. Brooks Smith, is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.- Federal Service :...

||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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| Daniel John Snyder, Jr.

Daniel John Snyder, Jr.

Daniel John Snyder, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Snyder received an A.B. from College of Wooster in 1937 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1940. He was an Associate professor, University of Pittsburgh from 1940 to 1941...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Herbert Peter Sorg||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 Alvah Stewart

William Alvah Stewart

William Alvah Stewart was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Stewart received an A.B. from Amherst College in 1925 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1928. He was in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1928 to 1951. He was an Instructor, Duquesne Law...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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| Hubert Irving Teitelbaum

Hubert Irving Teitelbaum

Hubert Irving Teitelbaum was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Teitelbaum received an A.B. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1937 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1940. He was a Special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| W. H. Seward Thomson

W. H. Seward Thomson

W. H. Seward Thomson was a United States federal judge.Born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Thomson attended Washington and Jefferson College, and Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia before reading law to enter the bar in 1880...

||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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| Jonathan Hoge Walker

Jonathan Hoge Walker

||James Monroe

James Monroe

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| Gerald Joseph Weber

Gerald Joseph Weber

Gerald Joseph Weber was a United States federal judge.Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Weber received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1936 and received his LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1939. He was an Instructor at Gannon College, Erie, Pennsylvania from 1939 to 1941...

||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 Francis Weis Jr.||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| William Wilkins

William Wilkins (U.S. politician)

William Wilkins was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his career, he served in both houses of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, and in all three branches of the United States federal government, including service as a United States federal judge, as...

||James Monroe

James Monroe

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| Joseph Putnam Willson

Joseph Putnam Willson

Joseph Putnam Willson was a United States federal judge.Born in Bath, New York, Willson received a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1926 and an LL.B. from Temple University School of Law in 1931. He was in private practice in Smethport, Pennsylvania from 1931 to 1953. He served in the U.S...

||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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| James Scott Young

James Scott Young

James Scott Young was a United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Young received an A.B. from Washington and Jefferson College in 1869 and read law to enter the bar in 1872. He was in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1872 to 1902. He was a U.S...

||Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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| Donald Emil Ziegler

Donald Emil Ziegler

Donald Emil Ziegler is a former United States federal judge.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ziegler received a B.A. from Duquesne University in 1958 and an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1961. He was in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1962 to 1974...

||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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United States Attorneys

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James Hamilton
James Hamilton
-Dukes:*James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton , heir to the throne of Scotland*James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman*James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman...

March 11, 1801
Andrew Stewart April 20, 1818
Alexander Brackenridge March 3, 1821
George W. Buchanan October 22, 1830
Benjamin Patton, Jr. October 22, 1832
John P. Anderson June 12, 1839
Cornelius Darragh
Cornelius Darragh
Cornelius Darragh was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Cornelius Darragh was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the Western University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with the class of 1826. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829 and...

March 25, 1841
William O'Hara Robinson March 29, 1844
John L. Dawson July 22, 1845
J. Bowman Sweitzer August 27, 1850
Charles Shaler April 19, 1853
Richard Biddle Roberts April 21, 1857
Robert B. Carnahan April 12, 1861
Henry B. Swope January 24, 1870
David Reed
David Reed
David Reed may refer to:* David A. Reed , U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1923–1935* David Reed , British Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1970–1974* Dave L. Reed , member of the Pennsylvania State House...

March 24, 1874
Henry H. McCormick June 29, 1876
William A. Stone
William A. Stone
William Alexis Stone was the 22nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903.-Early life:Stone was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. In 1864, Stone enlisted in the Union Army as a private during the American Civil War, and became a second lieutenant in 1865. He continued his military service after...

July 6, 1880
George A. Allen December 4, 1886
Walter Lyon
Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania)
Walter Lyon was the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1899.He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also served as the United States District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and a member of Pennsylvania State Senate from...

June 21, 1889
Stephen C. McCandless April 26, 1893
Harry Alvan Hall June 8, 1893
B. Heiner September 14, 1897
James S. Young February 10, 1902
John W. Dunkle March 17, 1905
John H. Jordan April 15, 1909
Edwin Lowry Humes September 10, 1913
R. Lindsay Crawford September 2, 1918
Edwin Lowry Humes August 20, 1919
Robert J. Dodds June 1, 1920
D. J. Driscoll August 19, 1920
Walter Lyon
Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania)
Walter Lyon was the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1899.He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also served as the United States District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and a member of Pennsylvania State Senate from...

March 11, 1921
John D. Meyer July 18, 1925
Louise Edward Graham October 31, 1929
Horatio S. Dumbauld August 17, 1933
Charles F. Uhl May 12, 1941
Owen McIntosh Burns
Owen McIntosh Burns
Owen McIntosh Burns was a United States federal judge.Burns was born in Danville, Illinois. He received an A.B. from the University of Illinois in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army infantry, holding the rank of Captain. He received an LL.B. from the University of Illinois College...

May 16, 1947
Edward C. Boyle
Edward C. Boyle
Edward C. Boyle was the Allegheny County District Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from January 3, 1956 until January 6, 1964. He was a member of the Democratic Party. -See also:* District Attorney* Pittsburgh Police...

November 3, 1949
John W. McIlvaine July 16, 1953
D. Malcolm Anderson, Jr. August 19, 1955
Hubert I. Teitelbaum March 17, 1958
Joseph S. Ammerman
Joseph S. Ammerman
Joseph Scofield Ammerman was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Joseph Ammerman was born in Curwensville, PA. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA in 1948 and received his J.D. from the...

June 5, 1961
Gustave Diamond
Gustave Diamond
Gustave Diamond is a United States federal judge.Born in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, Diamond was in the United States Navy Seaman from 1946 to 1948. He received an A.B. from Duke University in 1951 and a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1956. He was a law clerk, Hon. Rabe F. Marsh,...

February 2, 1963
Richard L. Thornburgh June 4, 1969
Blair A. Griffith July 7, 1975
Robert J. Cindrich
Robert J. Cindrich
Robert James Cindrich is a former U.S. district judge and a former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.- Early life and education :...

September 29, 1978
J. Alan Johnson July 31, 1981
Charles D. Sheehy January 15, 1989
Thomas W. Corbett November 30, 1989
Frederick W. Thieman August 16, 1993
Linda L. Kelly
Linda L. Kelly
Linda L. Kelly is an American attorney. She is currently serving as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania.-Education:Kelly is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the Duquesne University School of Law.-Legal career:...

August 1, 1997
Harry Litman October 22, 1998
Linda L. Kelly
Linda L. Kelly
Linda L. Kelly is an American attorney. She is currently serving as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania.-Education:Kelly is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the Duquesne University School of Law.-Legal career:...

April 28, 2001
Mary Beth Buchanan
Mary Beth Buchanan
Mary Beth Buchanan, née Kotcella, , was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She was nominated by George W...

- September 18, 2001
Robert S. Cessar - November 17, 2009
David J. Hickton - August 12, 2010
David J. Hickton (nominated May 20, 2010)

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