PoliticalGraveyard.com
U.S. District Court in West Virginia
U.S. District Judges for West Virginia, 1864-1905 (may be
incomplete!)
John
Jay Jackson, Jr. 1864-1901
Alston
G. Dayton 1905
U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of West Virginia,
1921-2017 (may be incomplete!)
William
E. Baker 1921-54
Herbert
S. Boreman 1954-59
Charles
Ferguson Paul 1960-65
Robert
E. Maxwell 1965-95
Charles
H. Haden II 1975-83
Fred
P. Stamp, Jr. 1990-2006
W.
Craig Broadwater 1996-
John
P. Bailey 2007-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of West Virginia,
1901-2017 (may be incomplete!)
Benjamin
Franklin Keller 1901-21
George
W. McClintic 1921-41
Ben
Moore 1941-58
John
A. Field, Jr. 1959-71
Kenneth
Keller Hall 1971-76
Charles
H. Haden II 1975-2004
John
T. Copenhaver, Jr. 1976-
William
M. Kidd 1979-90
Robert
J. Staker 1979-94
Elizabeth
V. Hallanan 1984-96
Irene
Cornelia Berger 2009-
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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