FRANKLIN PIERCE FIRST PRESIDENT TO APPOINT U.S. JUDGES..??

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Following is a partial list of all United States federal judges appointed by President Franklin Pierce during his presidency. In total Pierce appointed sixteen federal judges, including one Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, three judges to the United States circuit courts, and twelve judges to the United States district courts. Pierce was also the first president to appoint judges to the United States Court of Claims.

John Archibald Campbell In early 1861, Campbell served as a mediator between William H. Seward, Simon Cameron, and the three Confederate commissioners Martin Crawford, Andre Roman, and John Forsyth, Jr.. The Confederate mediators' attempts at diplomatic negotiations were spurned by Seward. According to John G. Nicolay, one of Lincoln's private secretaries and a later biographer of the Civil War president, "Failing in this direct application, they made further efforts through Mr. Justice Campbell of the Supreme Court...who came to Seward in the guise of a loyal official, though his correspondence with Jefferson Davis soon revealed a treasonable intent. After learning of the reinforcement of Fort Sumter, Campbell resigned from the Court on April 30, 1861, and returned to Alabama. A year later he was named Assistant Secretary of War by Confederate president Jefferson Davis, a position he held through the end of the war
After the fall of Richmond in 1865, Campbell was arrested and imprisoned at Fort Pulaski, in Georgia, for six months. After his release, he was reconciled and resumed his law practice in New Orleans, Louisiana. In this private practice he argued a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court including the Slaughterhouse Cases and a number of other cases designed to obstruct Radical Reconstruction in the South.
If you have read any of my previous posts you will recognize a definite pattern here. President Franklin Pierce had selected future C.S.A. Assistant Secretary of War to be a United States Supreme Court Justice prior to the Civil War. K.G.C. ?

Thomas Howard DuVal The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state. On February 21, 1857, the state was divided into two districts, Eastern and Western, with Judge Watrous continuing in the Eastern district. Judge Watrous and Judge Thomas H. DuVal, of the Western District of Texas, left the state on the secession of Texas from the Union, the only two United States Judges not to resign their posts in states that seceded. When Texas was restored to the Union, Watrous and DuVal resumed their duties and served until 1870.K.G.C.

The list is longer and full of Confederates. K.G.C.? One only has to read about what they did in office to see the light. Check it out for yourself and you be the "JUDGE".

List of federal judges appointed by Franklin Pierce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Appointed by Pierce Administration

William Fell Giles
After his tenure in Congress, Giles served as officer of the American Colonization Society for more than thirty years, and for more than twenty years as one of the commissioners of the State of Maryland supervising the emigration of free blacks to Liberia.

West Hughes Humphreys
Humphreys was born in Montgomery County, Tennessee and studied Law at Transylvania University (in Lexington, Kentucky) and obtained a licence to practice in 1828. He was in private practice of law in Clarksville, Tennessee from 1828 to 1829 and in private practice of law in Somerville, Tennessee from 1829 to 1839. Humphreys later served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1835 to 1838, and as State Attorney General from 1839 to 1851 and he was a Reporter of the Supreme Court of Tennessee from 1839 to 1851.
On March 24, 1853, Humphreys was appointed by President Franklin Pierce to preside over all three of the Federal District Courts for Tennessee, the seats having been vacated by Morgan W. Brown. Two days later, Humphreys was confirmed by the United States Senate and received his commission. Humphreys supported the secessionist movement that led to the Civil War and accepted an appointment to the Confederate District Court of Tennessee on which he served from 1861 to 1865.
On May 19, 1862 the United States House of Representatives voted to impeach Humphreys on the following charges: Publicly calling for secession; Giving aid to an armed rebellion; Conspiring with Jefferson Davis; Serving as a Confederate Judge; Confiscating the property of Military Governor Andrew Johnson and Supreme Court Justice John Catron; And imprisoning a Union sympathiser with "intent to injure him".
On June 26, 1862, the United States Senate began the trial of the impeachment in his absence and later that day unanimously convicted him of all charges presented, except that of confiscating the property of Andrew Johnson. He was removed from office and barred from holding office under the United States for life. He held his Confederate Judgeship until the end of the Civil War.
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Judge Andrew Gordon Magrath also appointed by Franklin Pierce

Andrew Gordon Magrath On May 9, 1856, Magrath was nominated by President Franklin Pierce to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina vacated by Robert Budd Gilchrist. Magrath was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 12, 1856, and received commission the same day. It was there that he asserted Southern supremacy by striking down a piracy statute on the slave trade. Magrath resigned his judgeship when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 to the presidency. In U.S. District court on the day after Lincoln's election, November 7, 1860, Magrath rose from the bench, saying:
"In the political history of the United States, an event has happened of ominous import to fifteen slaveholding States. The State of which we are citizens has been always understood to have to have deliberately fixed its purpose whenever that event should happen. Feeling an assurance of what will be the action of the State, I consider it my duty, without delay, to prepare to obey its wishes. That preparation is made by the resignation of the office I have held. For the last time I have, as a Judge of the United States, administered the laws of the United States, within the limits of the State of South Carolina. While thus acting in obedience to a sense of duty, I cannot be indifferent to the emotions it must produce. That department of Government which. I believe, has best maintained its integrity and preserved its purity, has been suspended. So far as I am concerned, the Temple of Justice, raised under the Constitution of the United States, is now closed. If it shall be never again opened, I thank God that its doors have been closed before its altar has been desecrated with sacrifices to tyranny."

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When in congress Franklin Pierce referred to the Abolitionist as "reckless fools."
Pierce always dressed in black.

Pierce was the only president to have his cabinet stay intact through his entire time as president. No one left, quit or was asked to resign.(BROTHERS OF LASTING FAITH)
Former president Pierce was disliked by northerners because he didn't support the Civil War and didn't take a stand against slavery. He was considered a traitor by some people.

Commodore Perry brought back two tiny "sleeve dogs" from Japan and gave them to President Pierce. The dog was small enough to sit on a saucer. The President kept one of the dogs and gave the other to Jefferson Davis. Davis later became president of the Confederacy.

He was the only president to not have any turnover (leave) in his cabinet.
Perhaps it was because they were all under a binding oath in the K.G.C.
Tension over slavery was so high during Pierce's administration that in 1856 Representative Brooks beat Senator Sumner with his cane.

Pierce opposed Abe Lincoln and the Civil War. When Lincoln was assassinated, a mob threatened Pierce at his home.

some interesting notes on Franklin Pierce that you may or may not have known. L.C.