PoliticalGraveyard.com
U.S. District Court in Vermont
U.S. District Judges for Vermont, 1791-2017 (may be
incomplete!)
Nathaniel
Chipman 1791
David
Allen Smalley 1857-77
Hoyt
H. Wheeler 1877-
James
L. Martin 1906-15
Harland
B. Howe 1923
James
P. Leamy 1940-49
Ernest
W. Gibson 1950-69
Bernard
Joseph Leddy 1966-72
James
L. Oakes 1970
James
Stuart Holden 1971-84
Albert
Wheeler Coffrin 1972-89
Franklin
S. Billings, Jr. 1984-94
Fred
I. Parker 1990-94
John
Garvan Murtha 1995-2009
William
K. Sessions III 1995-2014
Geoffrey
William Crawford 2014-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a
political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 |
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The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead. | ||
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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 © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | ||
What is a "political graveyard"? See Political Dictionary; Urban Dictionary. | ||
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 HDLmi.com. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. |