Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President James Buchanan during his presidency.[1] In total Buchanan appointed 8 Article III federal judges, including 1 Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, and 7 judges to the United States district courts. Buchanan appointed no judges to the United States circuit courts during his time in office.
Buchanan appointed 2 judges to the United States Court of Claims, an Article I tribunal.
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Buchanan's only Supreme Court appointee, Nathan Clifford. -
Asa Biggs, named by Buchanan to the United States District Court for the District of North Carolina.
- ^ All information on the names, terms of service, and details of appointment of federal judges is derived from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public-domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.