Samuel Milligan
American judge (1814–1874)
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::summary American judge (1814–1874) ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Samuel Milligan |
| image | File:Samuel Milligan (scanned from Brabson 1972).jpg |
| office | Judge of the Court of Claims |
| term_start | July 25, 1868 |
| term_end | April 20, 1874 |
| appointer | Andrew Johnson |
| predecessor | David Wilmot |
| successor | William Adams Richardson |
| birth_name | Samuel Milligan |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Greene County, Tennessee |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Washington, D.C. |
| party | Democratic |
| education | Greeneville College |
| Tusculum College | |
| read law | |
| :: |
| honorific-prefix = | name = Samuel Milligan | honorific-suffix = | image =File:Samuel Milligan (scanned from Brabson 1972).jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Judge of the Court of Claims | term_start = July 25, 1868 | term_end = April 20, 1874 | nominator = | appointer = Andrew Johnson | predecessor = David Wilmot | successor = William Adams Richardson | pronunciation = | birth_name = Samuel Milligan | birth_date = | birth_place = Greene County, Tennessee | death_date = | death_place = Washington, D.C. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | nationality = | party = Democratic | otherparty = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | residence = | education = Greeneville College Tusculum College read law | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = 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 Greene County, Tennessee, Milligan attended Greeneville College, and after its merger with Tusculum College, graduated from that institution in 1843. He was a classmate of future judge and historian Oliver Perry Temple. He read law with Robert J. McKinney in Greeneville, Tennessee in 1846. A Democrat, Milligan was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives for three terms, from 1841 to 1846 (24th, 25th, and 26th General Assemblies). and represented Tennessee on a commission to resolve a boundary dispute with Virginia in 1858. He was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1860, and from 1864 to 1868. He was a delegate to the Peace Conference of 1861 in Washington, D.C. During the American Civil War, he remained loyal to the Union,
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.
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. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 25, 1868, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on April 20, 1874, due to his death in Washington, D.C.
References
Sources
References
- "Milligan, Samuel - Federal Judicial Center".
- Temple, Oliver Perry. (1912). "Notable Men of Tennessee: From 1833 to 1875, Their Times and Their Contemporaries". Cosmopolitan Press.
- Johnson, Andrew. (May 13, 1967). "The Papers of Andrew Johnson: 1852-1857". Univ. of Tennessee Press.
- "Justices Part 2 :: Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society".
- Albert D. Marks, "The Supreme Court of Tennessee", Part II, in [[Horace Williams Fuller]], ed., ''[[The Green Bag (1889–1914). 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".
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