List of federal judges appointed by Theodore Roosevelt information
President Theodore Roosevelt.
Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt during his presidency.[1] In total Roosevelt appointed 80 Article III federal judges, a record for his day surpassing the 46 appointed by Ulysses S. Grant. These included 3 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 19 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 58 judges to the United States district courts.
Five of Roosevelt's appointees - George Bethune Adams, Thomas H. Anderson, and Robert W. Archbald, Andrew McConnell January Cochran, and Benjamin Franklin Keller, were originally placed on their respective courts as recess appointments by President William McKinley. Following the assassination which resulted in McKinley's death on September 14, 1901, Roosevelt chose to formally nominate those judges for confirmation by the United States Senate, and all were confirmed.
Additionally, 9 Article I appointments are listed, including 5 judges to the United States Court of Claims and 4 members to the Board of General Appraisers (later the United States Customs Court).
From the establishment of the United States courts of appeals on June 16, 1891, until the abolition of the United States circuit courts on December 31, 1911, all United States Circuit Judges where jointly appointed to both the United States court of appeal and the United States circuit court for their respective circuit. Starting January 1, 1912, United States Circuit Judges served only on the United States court of appeal for their respective circuit.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as he appeared when Roosevelt appointed him to the United States Supreme Court.
William R. Day, another of Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees.
Willis Van Devanter, appointed by Roosevelt to the Eighth Circuit, would later serve on the Supreme Court.
^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.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as he appeared when Roosevelt appointed him to the United States Supreme Court.
William R. Day, another of Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees.
Willis Van Devanter, appointed by Roosevelt to the Eighth Circuit, would later serve on the Supreme Court.
