List of federal judges appointed by Franklin Pierce
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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Franklin Pierce during his presidency.[1] In total Pierce appointed 16 Article III federal judges, including 1 Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, 3 judges to the United States circuit courts, and 12 judges to the United States district courts.
Pierce was also the first president to appoint judges, 3 total, to the United States Court of Claims, an Article I tribunal.
- John Archibald Campbell was Pierce's only appointee to the Supreme Court.
- James M. Love, named to the United States District Court for the District of Iowa, was Pierce's longest-serving appointee.
- Former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Isaac Newton Blackford was among Pierce's appointments to the newly created United States Court of Claims.