22 United States federal judges appointed by William McKinley

List of federal judges appointed by William McKinley

Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President William McKinley during his presidency. In total McKinley appointed 35 Article III federal judges, including 1 Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, 6 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, and 28 judges to the United States district courts.

George Bethune Adams was a United States lawyer and United States federal judge specializing in admiralty law. He served in private practice, litigated before the Supreme Court of the United States, and served as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Thomas H. Anderson was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Robert Wodrow Archbald was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Commerce Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He was the ninth federal official on whom Articles of Impeachment were served, and only the third to be convicted and removed from office.

Henry Clay Bates was a Vermont lawyer and politician who served as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Vermont and as a federal judge.

William Henry Harrison Clayton, best known as W. H. H. Clayton, was an American lawyer and judge in post-Civil War Arkansas and Indian Territory Oklahoma. He served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, as chief prosecutor in the court of "hanging judge" Isaac Parker for 14 years and as a federal judge in the Central District of the Indian Territory that became the state of Oklahoma.

Andrew McConnell January Cochran was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

William Rufus Day was an American diplomat and jurist, who served for nineteen years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to his service on the Supreme Court, Day served as the 36th United States Secretary of State during the administration of President William McKinley and also served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit.

John Jefferson De Haven(also given as de Haven and DeHaven) was a United States Representative from California, an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Walter Evans was a United States Representative from Kentucky and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.

Hamilton Glover Ewart was a United States Representative from North Carolina and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

George Gray was a United States Senator from Delaware and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Third Circuit.

Peter Stenger Grosscup was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Seventh Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Grosscup is best remembered for having made use of the judicial injunction against strikers in labor disputes, including most notably the leadership of the American Railway Union in the 1894 Pullman Strike.

John Raymond Hazel was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. He is notable for administering the oath of office to President Theodore Roosevelt following the assassination of President William McKinley.

Francis Cabot Lowell was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the First Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Joseph McKenna was an American politician who served in all three branches of the U.S. federal government, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Attorney General and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He is one of seventeen members of the House of Representatives who subsequently served on the Supreme Court.

Smith McPherson was a United States Representative from Iowa and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

William W. Morrow was a United States Representative from California, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and a United State Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Ninth Circuit.

Edward Beers Thomas was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Albert Clifton Thompson was a United States Representative from Ohio and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Henry Galbraith Ward was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Second Circuit.

Francis Joseph Wing was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.