PoliticalGraveyard.com
U.S. District Court in Tennessee
U.S. District Judges for Tennessee, 1797-1853 (may be
incomplete!)
John
McNairy 1797-1802
Morgan
Welles Brown 1834-53
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Tennessee,
1802-2017 (may be incomplete!)
John
McNairy 1802-33
West
Hughes Humphreys 1853-62
Connally
Findlay Trigg 1862-80
Charles
Dickens Clark 1895-1908
Edward
T. Sanford 1908-23
Leslie
Rogers Darr 1939-61
Frank
Wiley Wilson 1961-82
Herbert
Theodore Milburn 1983-84
Thomas
Gray Hull 1983-2002
James
H. Jarvis II 1984-2002
Robert
Allan Edgar 1985-2005
Curtis
Lynn Collier 1995-2014
Harry
Sandlin Mattice, Jr. 2005-
Travis
Randall McDonough 2015-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Middle District of Tennessee,
1853-2017 (may be incomplete!)
West
Hughes Humphreys 1853-62
Connally
Findlay Trigg 1862-80
Charles
Dickens Clark 1895-1908
Edward
T. Sanford 1908-23
Leslie
Rogers Darr 1939-40
Elmer
David Davies 1939-57
William
Ernest Miller 1955-70
L.
Clure Morton 1970-84
Robert
L. Echols 1992-2007
William
Joseph Haynes, Jr. 1999-2014
Kevin
Hunter Sharp 2011-17
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Tennessee,
1802-2017 (may be incomplete!)
John
McNairy 1802-33
West
Hughes Humphreys 1853-62
Connally
Findlay Trigg 1862-78
Eli
Shelby Hammond 1878-1904
John
E. McCall 1905-20
Harry
Bennett Anderson 1926-35
John
Donelson Martin, Sr. 1935-40
Marion
S. Boyd 1940-66
Bailey
Brown 1961-79
Robert
Malcolm McRae, Jr. 1966-86
Harry
Walker Wellford 1970-82
Odell
Horton 1980-95
Jerome
Turner 1987-2000
Jon
Phipps McCalla 1992-2013
Bernice
Bouie Donald 1995-2011
Samuel
H. Mays, Jr. 2002-15
J.
Daniel Breen 2003-17
Stanley
Thomas Anderson 2008-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
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Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | ||
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023. |
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