Samuel McRoberts (April 12,1799 –March 27,1843) was a United States senator from Illinois. Born near Maeystown,he was educated by private tutors and graduated from the law department of Transylvania University in Lexington,Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Monroe County,and was clerk of the circuit court of Monroe County from 1819 to 1821. He was State circuit judge from 1824 to 1827 and a member of the Illinois State Senate from 1828 to 1830.
McRoberts was appointed United States Attorney by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 and served until 1832,when he resigned he was then appointed by President Martin Van Buren to be receiver of the land office at Danville in 1832. He was appointed Solicitor of the General Land Office at Washington in 1839 and served in that capacity until his resignation in 1841,and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4,1841,until his death;while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-seventh Congress). He died in Cincinnati,Ohio and was interred in the Moore Cemetery,Waterloo.
Hugh Swinton Legaré was an American lawyer,diplomat and politician from South Carolina who served as the 16th United States Attorney General under President John Tyler.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick was an American politician who served as the 11th Governor of Alabama and as a United States Senator from that state. He was a Democrat.
Francis Granger was an American politician who represented Ontario County,New York,in the United States House of Representatives for three non-consecutive terms. He was a leading figure in the state and national Whig Party,particularly in its moderate-conservative faction. He served as a Whig vice presidential nominee on the party's multi-candidate 1836 ticket and,in that role,became the only person to ever lose a contingent election for the vice presidency in the U.S. Senate. He also served briefly in 1841 as United States Postmaster General in the cabinet of William Henry Harrison. In 1856,he became the final Whig Party chairman before the party's collapse,after which he joined the Constitutional Union Party.
Samuel Douglas McEnery served as the 30th Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana,with service from 1881 until 1888. He was subsequently a U.S. senator from 1897 until 1910. He was the brother of John McEnery,one of the candidates in the contested 1872 election for governor.
William Lee Davidson Ewing was a politician from Illinois who served partial terms as the fifth governor of the state and as U.S. Senator.
Sidney Breese,a lawyer,soldier,author and jurist born in New York,became an early Illinois pioneer and represented the state in the United States Senate as well as served as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives,and has been called "father of the Illinois Central Railroad".
Samuel McKean was an American merchant and politician from Burlington,Pennsylvania,who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate for Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1839 and of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1823 to 1829. He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1815 to 1819 and the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 11th district from 1829 to 1830.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is a federal trial court that sits in Pittsburgh,Erie,and Johnstown,Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. Appeals from this court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
James Monroe was an American politician who served as the United States representative from New York (1839–1841). He was the nephew of President James Monroe.
James Semple was an American attorney and politician. He was Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives,Attorney General of Illinois,an associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court,Chargéd'Affaires to New Granada,and United States Senator from Illinois.
James Wilson McDill was an American lawyer,state-court judge,Republican United States Representative and Senator from Iowa,state railroad commissioner,and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
William Upham was an American attorney and politician from Montpelier,Vermont. He was most notable for his service as a United States senator from Vermont.
Robert Breckinridge McAfee was an American diplomat,historian and politician who was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky serving from 1824 to 1828.
Lewis Eaton was a United States Congressman from New York.
Philo Case Fuller was an American lawyer and politician.
Cyrus Spink was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio for three months in 1859 prior to his death in office.
David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention,engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for president by that party.
Elisha Mills Huntington was Commissioner of the United States General Land Office and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana.
John McKinley was a United States Senator from the state of Alabama and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Benjamin Parke was an American lawyer,politician,militia officer,businessman,treaty negotiator in the Indiana Territory who also served as a United States federal judge in Indiana after it attained statehood in 1816. Parke was the Indiana Territory's attorney general (1804–1808);a representative to the territory's first general assembly (1805);its first territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1805–1808);one of the five Knox County delegates to the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816;and a territorial court judge (1808–1816). After Indiana attained statehood,Parke served as the first United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana (1817–1835).