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   Abraham Lincoln

   Lincoln appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States: ... John Giles Adams • Milton Alexander • Henry Apple • Elizabeth Armstrong • Henry Atkinson • David Bailey • Black Hawk • Hugh Brady • Ebenezer Brigham • Jesse B. Brown • George Davenport • Jefferson Davis • John Dement • Henry Dodge • Mike Girty • Henry Gratiot • Rachel Hall • Sylvia Hall • William S. Hamilton • James D. Henry • George W. Jones • Keewassee • Keokuk • Abraham Lincoln • Meommuse • Neapope • Adam Payne • Elijah Phillips • Alexander Posey • James Sample • Lucy Sample • Winfield Scott • Shabbona • Adam Wilson Snyder • James W. Stephenson • Isaiah Stillman • Clack Stone • Joseph M. Street • James M. Strode • Felix St. Vrain • Joseph Throckmorton • Zachary Taylor • Wabokieshiek • Waubonsee • Weesheet • Samuel Whiteside •
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   Bloomington, Illinois

   David Davis, appointed to US Supreme Court by Abraham Lincoln, owner of "Cloverlawn" Mansion
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   List of Amherst College people

   Representative David Stuart 1838 (Michigan) (President Abraham Lincoln appointed him brigadier general in Civil War) ... Representative Thomas M. Davis III 1971 (Virginia)
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   Joseph Holt

   In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Holt as Judge Advocate General of the Union Army; at the same time Holt was promoted to major-general. ... Holt prepared an order for the signature of now-President Johnson for the arrest of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and five other suspects.
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   Stephen Johnson Field

   Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the newly created tenth Supreme Court seat, to achieve both regional balance (he was a Westerner) and political balance (he was a Democrat, albeit a Unionist one). ... | 1867–1870: | S. Nelson | R.C. Grier | N. Clifford | N.H. Swayne | S.F. Miller | D. Davis | S.J. Field |
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   Abraham Lincoln assassination

   Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the rest of his government were in full flight. ... Abraham Lincoln Events
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   Edward McPherson

   President Abraham Lincoln appointed McPherson as Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1863. ... Robert E. Lee • E. Porter Alexander • Richard H. Anderson • George T. Anderson • James J. Archer • Lewis Addison Armistead • William Barksdale • Henry L. Benning • John M. Brockenbrough • John R. Chambliss • Junius Daniel • Joseph R. Davis • George P. Doles • Jubal A.
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   Second Battle of Bull Run

   After the collapse of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in the Seven Days Battles of June 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed John Pope to command the newly formed Army of Virginia. ... Benjamin · Davis · Mallory · Seddon · Stephens
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   David Davis (Supreme Court justice)

   In 1862, President Lincoln appointed Davis to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he became famous for writing one of the most profound decisions in the Supreme Court history, Ex Parte Milligan (1866). ... | Nominated by | Abraham Lincoln |
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    William W. Orme

    He was a friend of Supreme Court Justice David Davis. When Abraham Lincoln appointed Davis to the Supreme Court, Davis wrote Orme about the news.

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