McQueen McIntosh was a United States federal judge

United States federal judge

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McIntosh was a Florida

Florida

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 planter

Plantation

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 who read law to enter the bar. He was in private practice in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

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 from 1850 to 1856.

On February 27, 1856, McIntosh was nominated by President Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

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 to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida

United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida

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 vacated by Isaac H. Bronson

Isaac H. Bronson

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. McIntosh was confirmed by the United States Senate

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 on March 11, 1856, and received his commission the same day. McIntosh served in that capacity until the outbreak of the American Civil War

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, in which he sided with the Confederacy and therefore submitted his resignation from the federal bench, on January 3, 1861.

He was then made a judge on the District Court of Florida of the Confederate States of America, in 1861.

He died in Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...

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