List of federal judges appointed by James Buchanan

President Buchanan.

Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President James Buchanan during his presidency. ^[1] In total Buchanan appointed 8 Article III federal judges, including 1 Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, and 7 judges to the United States district courts. Buchanan appointed no judges to the United States circuit courts during his time in office.

Buchanan appointed 2 judges to the United States Court of Claims, an Article I tribunal.

• 
  Buchanan's only Supreme Court appointee, Nathan Clifford.
• 
  Asa Biggs, named by Buchanan to the United States District Court for the District of North Carolina.

United States Supreme Court justices

#	Justice	Seat	State	Former justice	Nomination date	Confirmation date	Began active service	Ended active service
1	Nathan Clifford	2	Maine	Benjamin Robbins Curtis	December 9, 1857	January 12, 1858	January 12, 1858	July 25, 1881

District courts

#	Judge	Court [Note 1]	Nomination date	Confirmation date	Began active service	Ended active service
1	John Cadwalader	E.D. Pa.	April 19, 1858	April 24, 1858	April 24, 1858	January 26, 1879
2	Asa Biggs	D.N.C.	May 3, 1858	May 3, 1858	May 3, 1858	April 23, 1861
3	Rensselaer Nelson	D. Minn.	May 20, 1858	May 30, 1858	May 20, 1858	May 16, 1896
4	Wilson McCandless	W.D. Pa.	February 3, 1859	February 8, 1859	February 8, 1859	July 24, 1876
5	Matthew Deady	D. Ore.	March 7, 1859	March 9, 1859	March 9, 1859	March 24, 1893
6	William Giles Jones	M.D. Ala. N.D. Ala. S.D. Ala.	January 23, 1860	January 30, 1860	September 29, 1859 [2]	January 12, 1861
7	William Davis Shipman	D. Conn.	February 28, 1860	March 12, 1860	March 12, 1860	April 16, 1873

Specialty courts (Article I)

United States Court of Claims

#	Judge	Nomination date	Confirmation date	Began active service	Ended active service
1	Edward G. Loring	May 3, 1858	May 6, 1858	May 6, 1858	December 14, 1877
2	James Hughes	January 12, 1860	January 18, 1860	January 18, 1860	December 1, 1864

Notes

1. See List of United States district and territorial courts

References

General

• "Judges of the United States Courts". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges . Federal Judicial Center. Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2009-04-03.

Specific

1. All information on the names, terms of service, and details of appointment of federal judges is derived from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public-domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
2. Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 23, 1860, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 30, 1860, and received commission on January 30, 1860.

Sources

• Federal Judicial Center