Draft:List of former United States territorial courts

The following are former United States territorial courts, which ceased to exist when their territory gained statehood or ceased to be a territory of the United States.

Alabama

Henry Y. Webb, appointed 1818
John Williams Walker, appointed 1819

Alaska

See: [1] [2] [3]

Territory-wide

#	Judge	Born–died	Comission date (to be removed once oath date found)	Began active service (oath date)	Ended active service	Appointed by	Reason for termination	Bio links (to be deleted once written)
1	Ward McAllister Jr.	1855–1908	July 5, 1884	August 23, 1884	1885	Arthur		[4]
2	E. J. Dawne	1844–?	July 21, 1885	August 20, 1885	September 23, 1885	Cleveland	dismissed	[5]
3	Lafayette Dawson	1839–1897	December 3, 1885	December 16, 1885	1888	Cleveland		[6][7]
4	John H. Keatley	1838–1905	July 19, 1889	August 15, 1888	1889	B. Harrison		[8]
5	John S. Bugbee	1840–1896	October 15, 1889	December 7, 1889	1892	B. Harrison		[9][10]
6	Warren D. Truitt	1855–1935	January 11, 1892	April 21, 1892	1897	B. Harrison		[11][12]
7	Arthur Delaney	1841–1905	November 8, 1895	December 10, 1895	July 28, 1897	Cleveland	dismissed	[13]
8	Charles S. Johnson	1854–1906	July 28, 1897	September 1, 1897	1900	McKinley		[14][15]
9	Melville C. Brown	1838–1928	April 1, 1900	April 28, 1900	1900	McKinley	reassignment to First District	[16][17]

First District (Juneau)

#	Judge	Born–died	Comission date (to be removed once oath date found)	Ended active service	Appointed by	Reason for termination	Bio links (to be deleted once written)
1	Melville C. Brown	1838–1928	June 6, 1900	1904	McKinley		[18][19]
2	Royal Arch Gunnison	1873–1918	December 3, 1904	1909	T. Roosevelt		[20][21]
3	Thomas R. Lyons	1867–1941	May 4, 1909	1913	Taft		[22][23]
4	Robert W. Jennings	1864–1937	May 16, 1913 June 29, 1917	1921	Wilson		[24][25]
5	Thomas M. Reed	1857–1928	October 1, 1921	1928	Harding		[26][27]
6	Justin Woodward Harding	1888–1976	January 15, 1929	1934	Coolidge		[28]
7	George F. Alexander	1882–1948	July 18, 1933 January 26, 1934 March 12, 1938	1947	F. Roosevelt		[29]
8	George W. Folta	1893–1955	May 5, 1947	June 10, 1955	Truman	death	[30][31]
9	Raymond J. Kelly	1894–1979	1955	November 1959	Eisenhower	court dissolved	[32]

Second District (Nome)

#	Judge	Born–died	Comission date (to be removed once oath date found)	Ended active service	Appointed by	Reason for termination	Bio links (to be deleted once written)
1	Arthur H. Noyes	1853–1915	June 6, 1900	1902	McKinley		[33]
2	Alfred S. Moore	1846–1920	May 27, 1902 May 27, 1906	1910	T. Roosevelt		[34][35]
3	Cornelius D. Murane	1867–1951	1910	1913	Taft		[36][37]
4	John Randolph Tucker	1854–1926	November 1, 1913	1917	Wilson		[38]
5	William A. Holzheimer	1870–1948	November 1, 1917	1921	Wilson		[39]
6	Gudbrand J. Lomen	1854–1934	August 19, 1921 February 16, 1926	1932	Harding		[40][41]
7	Lester O. Gore	1890–1965	June 28, 1932	1934	Hoover		[42]
8	J. H. S. Morison	1864–1952	July 26, 1935	1944	F. Roosevelt		[43]
9	Joseph W. Kehoe	1890–1959	November 29, 1944	1951	F. Roosevelt		[44][45]
10	J. Earl Cooper	1907–1964	July 17, 1952	1953	Truman		[46][47]
11	Walter Hartman Hodge	1896–1975	March 2, 1954	November 1959	Eisenhower	court dissolved	[48]

Third District (Fairbanks to 1909, then Valdez and Anchorage)

#	Judge	Born–died	Comission date (to be removed once oath date found)	Ended active service	Appointed by	Reason for termination	Bio links (to be deleted once written)
1	James Wickersham	1857–1939	June 6, 1900 July 1, 1906	1907	McKinley		[49]
2	Silas H. Reid	1870–1911	1908	1909	T. Roosevelt		[50]
3	Edward E. Cushman	1865–1944	July 1, 1909	1912	Taft		[51]
4	Pete Overfield	1874–1959	1912	1913	Taft		[52]
5	Frederick M. Brown	1864–1946	June 17, 1913 July 12, 1917	1921	Wilson		[53]
6	Elmer E. Ritchie	1861–1941	August 16, 1921	1927	Harding		[54]
7	E. Coke Hill	1866–1961	March 25, 1927	1932	Coolidge	reassignment to Fourth District	[55][56]
8	Cecil H. Clegg	1873–1956	June 16, 1932	1934	Hoover		[57]
9	Simon Hellenthal	1877–1955	February 16, 1935	1945	F. Roosevelt		[58][59]
10	Anthony Dimond	1881–1953	January 3, 1945	1953	F. Roosevelt		[60]
11	J. L. McCarrey Jr.	1906–1992	October 16, 1953	November 1959	Eisenhower	court dissolved	[61][62]

Fourth District (Fairbanks)

#	Judge	Born–died	Comission date (to be removed once oath date found)	Ended active service	Appointed by	Reason for termination	Bio links (to be deleted once written)
1	Pete Overfield	1874–1959	July 16, 1909	1912	Taft	reassignment to Third District	[63]
2	Frederic E. Fuller	1868–1953	August 16, 1912	1914	Taft		[64][65]
3	Charles E. Bunnell	1878–1956	January 12, 1915	1921	Wilson		[66]
4	Cecil H. Clegg	1873–1956	December 3, 1921	1932	Harding	reassignment to Third District	[67]
5	E. Coke Hill	1866–1961	May 3, 1932	1935	Hoover		[68][69]
6	Harry Emerson Pratt	1884–1957	June 21, 1935	1954	F. Roosevelt		[70][71]
7	Vernon D. Forbes	1905–1990	November 8, 1954	November 1959	Eisenhower	court dissolved	[72]

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Arizona

Arkansas

Charles Jouett, appointed 1819
Robert P. Letcher, appointed 1819
Andrew Scott, appointed 1819, 1822
Joseph Selden, appointed 1820, 1824
Benjamin Johnson, appointed 1821, 1824, 1828, 1832
William Trimble, appointed 1824, 1828
James Woodson Bates, appointed 1827
Thomas P. Eskridge, appointed 1827, 1831
Edward Cross, appointed 1830, 1833
Alexander M. Clayton, appointed 1832
Charles S. Bibb, appointed 1832
Thomas J. Lacy, appointed 1834
Archibald Yell, appointed 1835

Colorado

Charles Lee Armour, appointed 1861
Benjamin F. Hall, appointed 1861
S.n Newton Pettis, appointed 1861
Allen Alexander Bradford, appointed 1862
Stephen S. Harding, appointed 1864
William H. Gale, appointed 1865
Charles Frederick Holly, appointed 1865
Christian S. Eyster, appointed 1866
William R. Gorsline, appointed 1866
Moses Hallett, appointed 1866, 1870, 1874
James B. Belford, appointed 1870, 1874
Ebenezer T. Wells, appointed 1871
Andrew W. Brazee, appointed 1875
Amherst W. Stone, appointed 1875

Dakota

Florida

William Pope Duval, appointed 1821 (all)
Eligius Fromentin, appointed 1821 (all)
Henry Marie Brackenridge, appointed 1822, 1823 (West), 1824, 1827 (all?)
John Branch, appointed 1822 (West)
Joseph Lee Smith, appointed 1822 (East), 1824, 1827 (all?)
William W. Blair, appointed 1824 (all?)
Augustus B. Woodward, appointed 1824 (all?)
Thomas Randall, appointed 1827 (all?), 1831, 1835 (Middle District)
James Webb, appointed 1828, 1832 (all?), 1836 (Southern District)
John A. Cameron, appointed 1832, 1836 (West)
Robert R. Reid, appointed 1832, 1836 (East)
Richard C. Allen, appointed 1838 (all?)
Dillon Jordan Jr., appointed 1838, 1842 (West)
Alfred Balch, appointed 1840 (Middle District)
Isaac H. Bronson, appointed 1840, 1844 (Eastern District)
William Marvin, appointed 1840 (Southern District)
Samuel W. Carmack, appointed 1841 (all?)
Samuel J. Douglas, appointed 1842 (Middle District)

Hawaii

Idaho

Former territorial courts/territorial supreme courts

Illinois
Indian Territory
Indiana
Iowa
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
Northwest Territory
Oklahoma
Oregon
Orleans
Philippine Islands
Puerto Rico
Southwest Territory
Utah
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming

New Mexico

The Territory New Mexico was initially divided into three judicial districts, with additional districts added over time.^[1]

Justice	Began service	Ended service	Notes
Joab Houghton	1846 1865	1851 1869	First District Third District
Grafton Baker	1851	1853	First District
J. J. Davenport	1853	1858	First District
Kirby Benedict	1853 1858	1858 1866	Third District First District
John P. Slough	1866	1868	First District
John Sebrie Watts	1851 1868	1857 1869	Second District First District
Joseph G. Palen	1869	1876	First District
Henry L. Waldo	1876	1878	First District
Charles McCandless	1878	1879	First District
L. Bradford Prince	1879	1882	First District
Samuel Beach Axtell	1882	1885	First District
Reuben A. Reeves	1887	1889	First District
William H. Whiteman	1889	1890	First District
Edward P. Seeds	1890	1894	First District
Napoleon B. Laughlin	1894	1898	First District
John R. McFie	1898 1889	1889 1893	First District Third District
Antonio Jose Otero	1846	1851	Second District
Perry E. Brocchus	1857 1867	1859 1869	Second District
W. F. Boon	1859	1861	Second District
Sydney A. Hubbell	1861	1867	Second District
Hezekiah Johnson	1870	1876	Second District
John I. Reddick	1876	1877	Second District
Samuel B. McLin	1877	1878	Second District
Samuel C. Parks	1878	1882	Second District
Joseph Bell	1882	1885	Second District
William A. Brinker	1885	1889	Second District
William D. Lee	1889	1893	Second District
Needham C. Collier	1893	1898	Second District
Jonathan W. Crumpacker	1898	1902	Second District
Benjamin S. Baker	1902	1904	Second District
Ira A. Abbott	1904	1912	Second District
Charles H. Beaubien	1846	1851	Third District
Horace Mower	1851	1853	Third District
William G. Blackwood	1858	1861	Third District
Joseph G. Knapp	1861	1865	Third District
Abram Bergen	1869	1870	Third District
Benjamin J. Waters	1870	1871	Third District
Daniel B. Johnson	1871	1872	Third District
Warren Bristol	1872	1884	Third District
Stephen Fowler Wilson	1884	1885	Third District
William F. Henderson	1885	1889	Third District
Albert B. Fall	1893	1895	Third District
Gideon D. Bantz	1895	1898	Third District
Frank W. Parker	1898	1912	Third District
Elisha V. Long	1889	1893	Fourth District
James O'Brien	1893	1893	Fourth District
Thomas J. Smith	1893	1898	Fourth District
William J. Mills	1898	1910	Fourth District
Clarence J. Roberts	1910	1912	Fourth District
Alfred A. Freeman	1890	1895	Fifth District
Humphrey B. Hamilton	1895	1898	Fifth District
Charles A. Leland	1898	1900	Fifth District
Daniel H. McMillan	1900	1903	Fifth District
William Hayes Pope	1903	1912	Fifth District
Edward A. Mann	1904	1909	Sixth District
Alford W. Cooley	1909	1910	Sixth District
Edward R. Wright	1910	1912	Sixth District
Merritt C. Mechem	1909	1912	Seventh District

This open draft remains in progress as of August 8, 2024.

^ Anderson, George B. (1907). History of New Mexico: its resources and people. Vol. 1. Los Angeles: Pacific States Pub. Co. OCLC 1692911.

[1] Anderson, George B. (1907). History of New Mexico: its resources and people. Vol. 1. Los Angeles: Pacific States Pub. Co. OCLC 1692911.

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