Freeborn Garrettson Jewett
1791-1858 Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1845-1847 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1847; 1850-1853 Chief Judge, 1847-1849 by Edward Jewett … More Freeborn Garrettson Jewett »
Era Category: Judges of the Era - Antebellum
Greene Carrier Bronson
1789-1863 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1836-1845 Chief Justice, 1845-1847 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1847-1859 Chief Judge, 1850-1851 … More Greene Carrier Bronson »
Charles Herman Ruggles
1789-1865 Court of Appeals, 1847-1850; 1854-1855 Chief Judge: 1851-1853 by Albert M. Rosenblatt Judge Charles Ruggles has a special place in this writer’s heart … More Charles Herman Ruggles »
Samuel Lee Selden
1800-1876 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1855-1862 Chief Judge, January-July 1862 by Frances Murray There exists a manuscript, written in 1851 on … More Samuel Lee Selden »
Henry Ebenezer Davies
1805-1881 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1859-1867 by Norman Kee Contested elections resulting in heated litigation may seem to be a recent … More Henry Ebenezer Davies »
William B. Wright
1806-1868 Ex Officio Judge of the Court of Appeals; 1847-1848; 1856-1857; 1860 Associate Judge, 1861-1867 Chief Judge, 1868 by Erik Goergen In a memorial … More William B. Wright »
Henry Rogers Selden
1805-1885 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1862-1865 by Frances Murray Described by a contemporary historian1 as one of the most able and … More Henry Rogers Selden »
Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff
1809-1875 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1868-1869 by Donald J. Paisley Although serving on the Court of Appeals only from January 1868 … More Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff »
Charles Mason
1810-1879 Ex Officio Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1853; 1861 Associate Judge, 1868-1869 by Albert M. Rosenblatt Oneida County had been the birthplace … More Charles Mason »