Samuel Milligan
Samuel Milligan | |
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Judge of the Court of Claims | |
In office July 25, 1868 – April 20, 1874 | |
Appointed by | Andrew Johnson |
Preceded by | David Wilmot |
Succeeded by | William Adams Richardson |
Personal details | |
Born | Samuel Milligan November 16, 1814 read law |
Samuel Milligan (November 16, 1814 – April 20, 1874) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court and a judge of the Court of Claims. He was a close friend and confidant of President Andrew Johnson.
Education and career
Born on November 16, 1814, in
In his second appointment to the Supreme Court, Milligan served on the highly partisan "apocryphal" court, which was in place in Tennessee between the end of the Civil War and the enactment of the Constitution of 1870. The justices who served on this court "without exception, were bitter partisans" who "had all been Union men, and... took the partisan view of all questions growing out of the war". Of this group, Milligan is described as one of only two "who were men of talent, and were good lawyers", the other being George Andrews.[6]
Federal judicial service
Milligan was nominated by President Andrew Johnson on July 23, 1868, to a seat on the Court of Claims (later the United States Court of Claims) vacated by Judge David Wilmot.[1] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 25, 1868, and received his commission the same day.[1] His service terminated on April 20, 1874, due to his death in Washington, D.C.[7][1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Milligan, Samuel - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
- ^ a b c d e Temple, Oliver Perry; Temple, Mary Boyce (1912). Notable Men of Tennessee: From 1833 to 1875, Their Times and Their Contemporaries. Cosmopolitan Press. pp. 152–158. Retrieved May 13, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ Johnson, Andrew; Graf, LeRoy; Haskins, Ralph (May 13, 1967). The Papers of Andrew Johnson: 1852-1857. Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 186 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ "Justices Part 2 :: Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society". www.tschsociety.org.
- ^ Hans Louis Trefousse, Andrew Johnson: A Biography (American Political Biography Press, 1989), p. 174.
- ^ Albert D. Marks, "The Supreme Court of Tennessee", Part II, in Horace Williams Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Volume 5 (1893), p. 171.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the (22 April 1874). "Knoxville weekly chronicle. (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, April 22, 1874, Image 4". p. 4 – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
Sources
- "Milligan, Samuel - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.