Courts & Judges

Judges Appointed by Ulysses Grant

Ulysses Grant (Republican) made 50 Article III appointments between 1869 and 1877, by commission date. 0 of those judges are still serving, in active or senior status.

Supreme Court4

Courts of appeals0

District courts34

Other courts12

Total appointments50

The appointees

GenderMale 50

Race or ethnicityWhite 50

Counts per appointment as recorded in the Federal Judicial Center's directory. The American Bar Association has rated nominees since the 1950s; older appointments carry no rating, and some recent nominees were not rated.

Supreme Court (4)

Judge	Court	Commissioned	Senate vote	Status
William Strong Associate Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Feb 18, 1870		Retirement 1880
Joseph P. Bradley Associate Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Mar 21, 1870	46-9	Death 1892
Ward Hunt Associate Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Dec 11, 1872		Retirement 1882
Morrison Remick Waite Chief Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Jan 21, 1874	63-0	Death 1888

District courts (34)

Judge	Court	Commissioned	Senate vote	Status
Moses Hallett	District Court for the District of Colorado	Jan 12, 1877		Retirement 1906
David Campbell Humphreys Associate Justice	District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia)	May 13, 1870		Death 1879
Arthur MacArthur Associate Justice	District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia)	Jul 15, 1870		Retirement 1887
Nathaniel Shipman	District Court for the District of Connecticut	Dec 8, 1873		Appointed to another court 1892
Edward Green Bradford	District Court for the District of Delaware	Dec 12, 1871		Death 1884
Walter Quintin Gresham	District Court for the District of Indiana	Dec 21, 1869		Resignation 1883
Cassius Gaius Foster	District Court for the District of Kansas	Mar 10, 1874		Retirement 1899
Edward Coke Billings	District Court for the District of Louisiana	Feb 10, 1876	24-20	Reassignment 1881
Edgar Winters Hillyer	District Court for the District of Nevada	Dec 21, 1869		Death 1882
John Thompson Nixon	District Court for the District of New Jersey	Apr 28, 1870		Death 1889
John Power Knowles	District Court for the District of Rhode Island	Jan 24, 1870		Retirement 1881
John Wesley Longyear	District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan	Feb 18, 1870		Death 1875
Henry Billings Brown	District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan	Mar 19, 1875		Appointed to another court 1890
Joel C. C. Winch	District Court for the Eastern District of Texas	Oct 11, 1870		Recess appointment, not confirmed 1871
Amos Morrill	District Court for the Eastern District of Texas	Feb 5, 1872		Retirement 1883
Robert William Hughes	District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia	Jan 14, 1874	39-11	Retirement 1898
James Henry Howe	District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin	Dec 11, 1873		Resignation 1875
Charles E. Dyer	District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin	Feb 10, 1875		Resignation 1888
John Bruce	District Court for the Middle District of Alabama	Feb 27, 1875		Death 1901
John Bruce	District Court for the Northern District of Alabama	Feb 27, 1875		Death 1901
Thomas Settle	District Court for the Northern District of Florida	Jan 30, 1877		Death 1888
Henry Williams Blodgett	District Court for the Northern District of Illinois	Jan 11, 1870		Retirement 1892
William James Wallace	District Court for the Northern District of New York	Apr 7, 1874		Appointed to another court 1882
Martin Welker	District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	Dec 8, 1873		Retirement 1889
John Bruce	District Court for the Southern District of Alabama	Feb 27, 1875		Reassignment 1886
John McKinney	District Court for the Southern District of Florida	Feb 18, 1871		Death 1871
James William Locke	District Court for the Southern District of Florida	Feb 1, 1872		Retirement 1912
Philip Bergen Swing	District Court for the Southern District of Ohio	Mar 30, 1871		Death 1882
William Story	District Court for the Western District of Arkansas	Mar 3, 1871		Resignation 1874
Isaac Charles Parker	District Court for the Western District of Arkansas	Mar 19, 1875		Death 1896
Robert Paine Dick	District Court for the Western District of North Carolina	Jun 7, 1872		Retirement 1898
Winthrop Welles Ketcham	District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania	Jun 26, 1876		Death 1879
Alexander Rives	District Court for the Western District of Virginia	Feb 6, 1871		Retirement 1882
James Campbell Hopkins	District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin	Jul 9, 1870		Death 1877

Other courts (12)

Judge	Court	Commissioned	Senate vote	Status
Charles Daniel Drake Chief Justice	Court of Claims	Dec 12, 1870		Resignation 1885
William Adams Richardson	Court of Claims	Jun 2, 1874	27-20	Appointed to another court 1885
John Forrest Dillon	Circuit Courts for the Eighth Circuit	Dec 22, 1869		Resignation 1879
William Burnham Woods	Circuit Courts for the Fifth Circuit	Dec 22, 1869		Appointed to another court 1880
George Foster Shepley	Circuit Courts for the First Circuit	Dec 22, 1869		Death 1878
Hugh Lennox Bond	Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit	Jul 13, 1870	28-21	Death 1893
Lorenzo Sawyer	Circuit Courts for the Ninth Circuit	Jan 10, 1870		Death 1891
Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff	Circuit Courts for the Second Circuit	Dec 22, 1869		Death 1875
Alexander Smith Johnson	Circuit Courts for the Second Circuit	Dec 15, 1875		Death 1878
Thomas Drummond	Circuit Courts for the Seventh Circuit	Dec 22, 1869		Retirement 1884
Halmor Hull Emmons	Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit	Jan 17, 1870		Death 1877
William McKennan	Circuit Courts for the Third Circuit	Dec 22, 1869		Retirement 1891

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Source: Federal Judicial Center. Updated November 9, 2026.