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New York: Court of Appeals


Judges of the New York Court of Appeals, 1847-2020 (May be incomplete!)
Greene C. Bronson 1847-51 Addison Gardiner 1847-55 Freeborn G. Jewett 1847-53 Charles H. Ruggles 1847-55 Samuel A. Foote 1851 Alexander S. Johnson 1851-59 Hiram Denio 1853-65 George F. Comstock 1855 Samuel L. Selden 1855 Theron R. Strong as of 1859 Henry E. Davies 1859 William B. Wright 1861-68 Henry R. Selden 1862 John K. Porter 1865 Ward Hunt 1865-70 Martin Grover 1868-75 Lewis B. Woodruff 1868-69 Charles Mason 1868 Robert Earl 1869 John A. Lott 1869-70 William F. Allen 1870-78 Charles Andrews 1870-81 Charles J. Folger 1870-80 Rufus W. Peckham 1870-73 Charles A. Rapallo 1870-88 Alexander S. Johnson 1873-74 Theodore Miller 1875 Robert Earl 1875-92 Samuel Hand 1878 George F. Danforth 1878 Francis M. Finch 1880 Benjamin F. Tracy 1881-83 Rufus W. Peckham 1886-95 John Clinton Gray 1888-1913 Charles Francis Brown as of 1889-92 Denis O'Brien 1890-1907 Isaac H. Maynard 1892 Edward T. Bartlett 1894-1910 Celora E. Martin as of 1895-1906 Albert Haight 1895-1912 Irving G. Vann as of 1896-1912 Judson S. Lendon 1900 William E. Werner 1901-07 Willard Bartlett 1906-16 Emory A. Chase 1906 Frank H. Hiscock 1906 Frederick Collin 1910-20 William H. Cuddeback as of 1913 John W. Hogan as of 1913 Nathan L. Miller 1913-15 Benjamin N. Cardozo 1914-26 William B. Hornblower 1914 Samuel Seabury 1914-16 Cuthbert W. Pound 1915-32 Frederick E. Crane 1917-34 Chester B. McLaughlin 1917-26 William S. Andrews 1917-29 Abram I. Elkus 1919-20 Irving Lehman 1924-39 Henry T. Kellogg 1927-34 John F. O'Brien 1927-39 Irving G. Hubbs 1929-39 Leonard C. Crouch 1932-36 John T. Loughran 1934-45 Edward R. Finch 1935-40 Harlan W. Rippey as of 1937-40 Albert Conway 1940 Edmund H. Lewis 1940 Charles B. Sears 1940 Charles S. Desmond as of 1941-59 Thomas D. Thacher 1943-48 George Z. Medalie 1945-46 Stanley H. Fuld 1946-66 Charles W. Froessel 1950 John Van Voorhis 1953 Adrian P. Burke 1955-73 Sydney F. Foster 1960 John F. Scileppi 1962 Francis Bergan 1963-72 Kenneth B. Keating as of 1966-68 Charles D. Breitel 1966 Matthew J. Jasen as of 1968 James Gibson 1969 Domenick Gabrielli 1972-82 Hugh R. Jones 1972 Sol Wachtler 1972 Samuel Rabin 1974 Harold A. Stevens 1974 Lawrence H. Cooke 1974 Jacob D. Fuchsberg 1974 Bernard S. Meyer 1979 Richard D. Simons 1983- Judith S. Kaye 1983 Fritz W. Alexander II 1985 Vito J. Titone 1985- Stewart F. Hancock, Jr. 1986-93 Joseph W. Bellacosa 1987- George Bundy Smith 1992- Richard C. Wesley 1997-2003 Michael J. Garcia 2016-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1851 Apr 11: Greene C. Bronson, resigned.
  • 1853 Jun 23: Freeborn G. Jewett, resigned.
  • 1857: Timothy Jenkins (Rep), defeated.
  • 1863: William F. Allen (Dem), defeated.
  • 1868 Jan 12: William B. Wright, died in office.
  • 1870 May 17: William F. Allen (Dem), elected; Martin Grover (Dem), elected; Rufus W. Peckham (Dem), elected; Charles A. Rapallo (Dem), elected; Charles J. Folger (Rep), elected; Charles Andrews (Rep), elected; Charles Mason (Rep), defeated; Robert S. Hale (Rep), defeated.
  • 1873 Nov 22: Rufus W. Peckham, died in office.
  • 1873 Dec 29: Alexander S. Johnson, appointed.
  • 1874 Nov 3: Theodore Miller (Dem), elected; Alexander S. Johnson (Rep), defeated.
  • 1875 Aug 23: Martin Grover, died in office.
  • 1875 Nov 5: Robert Earl, appointed.
  • 1878 Jun 3: William F. Allen, died in office.
  • 1884: Walter J. Farrington (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1888: Charles A. Rapallo, died in office.
  • 1888 Jan 25: John Clinton Gray, appointed.
  • 1888 Nov 6: John Clinton Gray (Dem), elected.
  • 1889: Walter J. Farrington (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1889 Nov 5: Denis O'Brien (Dem), elected.
  • 1893 Nov 7: Edward T. Bartlett, elected.
  • 1895 Nov 6: Celora E. Martin, elected.
  • 1896 Nov 3: Irving G. Vann (Rep), elected; Robert C. Titus (Dem), defeated; Spencer Clinton (Gold Democratic), defeated; Theodore F. Cuno (Socialist Labor), defeated; Elias Root (Prohibition), defeated; Lawrence J. McParlin, defeated.
  • 1902 Nov 4: John Clinton Gray (Dem), elected.
  • 1903: Denis O'Brien, elected.
  • 1904 Nov 8: William E. Werner (Rep & Dem), elected; William Nugent (Social Democratic), defeated; Dexter D. Dorn (Prohibition), defeated; Orcus A. Curtis (Socialist Labor), defeated; Augustus Babcock (People's), defeated.
  • 1907 Nov 5: Edward T. Bartlett, elected.
  • 1908 Nov 3: Albert Haight (Rep & Dem), elected; Reuben Robie Lyon (Independence League), defeated; S. John Block (Socialist), defeated; Coleridge A. Hart (Prohibition), defeated; Edmund Seidel (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1910 May 3: Edward T. Bartlett, died in office.
  • 1910 Oct 5: Frederick Collin, appointed.
  • 1910 Nov 8: Irving G. Vann (Rep & Dem), elected; Frederick Collin (Rep), elected; Morris Hillquit (Socialist), defeated; Reuben Robie Lyon (Independence League), defeated; Louis B. Boudin (Socialist), defeated; James A. Allen (Independence League), defeated; Alfred L. Manierre (Prohibition), defeated; Gilbert Elliott (Prohibition), defeated; Charles H. Chase (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1912 Nov 5: William H. Cuddeback (Dem & Independence League), elected; John W. Hogan (Dem), elected; Frank H. Hiscock (Rep), defeated; Emory A. Chase (Rep), defeated; George W. Kirchwey (Progressive & Independence League), defeated; Carlos C. Alden (Progressive), defeated; Jessie Ashley (Socialist), defeated; Leon A. Malkiel (Socialist), defeated; Erwin J. Baldwin (Prohibition), defeated; Gilbert Elliott (Prohibition), defeated; Edmund Seidel (Socialist Labor), defeated; Carl A. Ludecke (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1913 Nov 4: Frank H. Hiscock (Rep & Independence League), elected; Abram I. Elkus (Dem), defeated; Samuel Seabury (Progressive), defeated; Hezekiah D. Wilcox (Socialist), defeated; Coleridge A. Hart (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1914 Feb 2: William B. Hornblower, appointed.
  • 1914 Jun 16: William B. Hornblower, died in office.
  • 1916 Sep 19: John T. Norton (Dem), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Sep 19: Cuthbert W. Pound (Rep), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Sep 19: Cuthbert W. Pound (Progressive), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Nov 7: Cuthbert W. Pound (Rep & Progressive), elected; John T. Norton (Dem), defeated; Hezekiah D. Wilcox (Socialist), defeated; Coleridge A. Hart (Prohibition), defeated; Leander A. Armstrong (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1917 Nov 6: Chester B. McLaughlin (Rep & Dem), elected; Benjamin N. Cardozo (Dem & Rep), elected; Hezekiah D. Wilcox (Socialist), defeated; Louis B. Boudin (Socialist), defeated; Walter T. Bliss (Prohibition), defeated; Coleridge A. Hart (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1920 Nov 2: Frederick E. Crane (Rep & Dem), elected; Emory A. Chase (Rep), elected; Abram I. Elkus (Dem), defeated; Leon A. Malkiel (Socialist), defeated; Jacob Axelrad (Socialist), defeated; Thomas F. Dwyer (Farmer-Labor), defeated; Coleridge A. Hart (Prohibition), defeated; Francis E. Baldwin (Prohibition), defeated; Swinburne Hale (Farmer-Labor), defeated.
  • 1921: Townsend Scudder (Dem), defeated.
  • 1923 Nov 6: Irving Lehman, elected.
  • 1926: Charles Carlson (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1926 Nov 2: Henry T. Kellogg (Rep & Dem), elected.
  • 1927 Jan 24: John F. O'Brien, appointed.
  • 1927 Nov 8: John F. O'Brien (Dem & Rep), elected; Hezekiah D. Wilcox (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1928 Nov 6: Irving G. Hubbs (Rep), elected; Leonard C. Crouch (Dem), defeated; Hezekiah D. Wilcox (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1930 Nov 4: Cuthbert W. Pound (Rep & Dem), elected; Darwin J. Meserole (Socialist), defeated; Belle J. Rosen (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1932 Mar 17: Leonard C. Crouch, appointed.
  • 1934: Henry T. Kellogg, resigned.
  • 1934 May 21: John T. Loughran, appointed.
  • 1934 Nov 6: John T. Loughran (Dem & Rep), elected; Edward R. Finch (Dem), elected; Charles B. Sears (Rep), defeated; Julian H. Weiss (Socialist), defeated; Darwin J. Meserole (Socialist), defeated; Gertrude Welsh (Communist), defeated; David E. Hartshorn (Law Preservation), defeated.
  • 1936 Nov 3: Harlan W. Rippey, elected; Darwin J. Meserole (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1937 Nov 2: Irving Lehman (Dem & Rep & American Labor & City Fusion), elected; Marion L. Severn (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1939 Dec 25: John F. O'Brien, died in office.
  • 1939 Dec 31: Irving G. Hubbs, resigned.
  • 1940 Jan 3: Albert Conway, appointed; Edmund H. Lewis, appointed.
  • 1940 Nov 5: Edmund H. Lewis (Rep & Dem & American Labor), elected; Albert Conway (Dem & Rep & American Labor), elected; Charles S. Desmond (Dem & American Labor), elected; Benjamin B. Cunningham (Rep), defeated.
  • 1943 May 5: Thomas D. Thacher, appointed.
  • 1943 Nov 2: Thomas D. Thacher (Rep & Dem & American Labor), elected unopposed.
  • 1944 Nov 7: Marvin R. Dye (Dem & American Labor), elected; John Van Voorhis (Rep), defeated; Walter Steinhilber (Industrial Government), defeated.
  • 1946 Mar 5: George Z. Medalie, died in office.
  • 1946 Apr 25: Stanley H. Fuld, appointed.
  • 1946 Nov 5: Stanley H. Fuld (Rep), elected; Henry Epstein (Dem & American Labor), defeated.
  • 1949 Nov 8: Charles W. Froessel (Dem & Liberal), elected; Bruce Bromley (Rep), defeated.
  • 1954 Nov 2: Charles S. Desmond (Dem & Rep), elected; John Van Voorhis (Rep & Dem), elected; Adrian P. Burke (Dem & Liberal), elected; Sydney F. Foster (Rep), defeated; George Rifkin (Liberal), defeated.
  • 1958 Nov 4: Marvin R. Dye (Dem & Rep), elected unopposed.
  • 1962 Nov 6: John F. Scileppi (Dem & Liberal), elected; Marcus G. Christ (Rep), defeated.
  • 1963 Nov 5: Francis Bergan (Dem & Rep), elected unopposed.
  • 1965: Owen McGivern, defeated; Henry S. Middendorf (Conservative), defeated.
  • 1965 Nov 2: Kenneth B. Keating, elected.
  • 1966 Dec 23: Charles D. Breitel, appointed.
  • 1967 Nov 7: Matthew J. Jasen, elected.
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