List of Judges of The United States District Court For The Districts of Virginia - Missouri

Missouri

The United States District Court for the District of Missouri was established on March 16, 1822, by 3 Stat. 653. However, an act of Congress passed in 1845 and upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1851, extendeding federal admiralty jurisdiction to inland waterways, resulted in a substantial increase in the number of admiralty cases arising from traffic on the Mississippi River. These disputes involved "contracts of affreightment, collisions, mariners' wages, and other causes of admiralty jurisdiction", and litigants of matters arising in the port city of St. Louis found it inconvenient to travel far inland to Jefferson City for their cases to be tried. The District was therefore subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts on March 3, 1857, by 11 Stat. 197.

Judge Appointed by Began active
service		 Ended active
service		 End reason
James H. Peck James Monroe 01822-04-05April 5, 1822 01836-04-29April 29, 1836 death
Robert William Wells Andrew Jackson 01836-06-27June 27, 1836 01857-03-03March 3, 1857 reassigned to Western
District of Missouri

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