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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant during his presidency.[1] In total Grant appointed 46 Article III federal judges, making him the first president to appoint more federal judges than George Washington. Grant's appointments included 4 Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 10 judges to the United States circuit courts, and 32 judges to the United States district courts. Grant also appointed Edwin M. Stanton to the Supreme Court in 1869; Stanton was confirmed and his commission was issued, but died before he could accept his commission and take his seat.
Grant appointed 2 judges to the United States Court of Claims, an Article I tribunal.
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Grant appointed Morrison Remick Waite to be Chief Justice of the United States. -
Moses Hallett was appointed by Grant to be the first judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. -
James William Locke served as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida for forty years, the longest tenure of any Grant appointee.
- ^ 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.