United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (in case citation
Case citation
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s, N.D. Ohio) is the federal trial court
Trial court
A trial court or court of first instance is a court in which trials take place. Such courts are said to have original jurisdiction.- In the United States :...

 for the northern half of Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

. The court has courthouses in Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

 (where the chief judge and most of the Northern District's judges have chambers), Toledo
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan...

, Akron
Akron, Ohio
Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...

, and Youngstown
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County; it also extends into Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

.

Appeals from this court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Kentucky* Western District of Kentucky...

 (except for patent
Patent
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 claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act
Tucker Act
Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....

, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
-Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...

).

The United States Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Ohio represents the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 in civil and criminal litigation in the court. Steven M. Dettelbach was appointed U.S. Attorney on July 10, 2009 by President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

, and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 15, 2009. He was sworn into office on October 26, 2009.

History

The United States District Court for the District of Ohio was established on February 19, 1803, by . The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern
United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio is one of two United States district courts in Ohio and includes forty-eight of the state's eighty-eight counties. Appeals from the court are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at Cincinnati The...

 Districts on February 10, 1855, by .

Current judges

  • As of June 1, 2010, a vacancy exists in the Northern District of Ohio due to Judge James Carr's decision to assume senior status. On May 11, 2011, President Obama nominated Jeffrey J. Helmick
    Jeffrey J. Helmick
    Jeffrey James Helmick is a Toledo, Ohio criminal defense attorney and current federal judicial nominee to a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.- Early life and education :...

     to the position. The U.S. Senate has yet to act on the nomination.

Judge Appointed by Began active
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Solomon Oliver Jr.
Solomon Oliver Jr.
Solomon Oliver Jr. is a United States federal judge.Born in Bessemer, Alabama, Oliver received a B.A. from College of Wooster in 1969 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1972. He earned an M.A. from Case Western Reserve University in 1974. From 1972 to 1975, he was an Assistant...

Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| Donald C. Nugent
Donald C. Nugent
Donald C. Nugent is a United States federal judge.Nugent was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Xavier University in Ohio in 1970. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1970 to 1971 before being admitted to the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| Patricia Anne Gaughan
Patricia Anne Gaughan
Patricia Anne Gaughan is a United States federal judge.Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Gaughan received a B.A. from St. Mary's College in 1975 and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1978. She was an Assistant prosecuting attorney of Criminal Trial Division, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, Ohio from...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| James S. Gwin
James S. Gwin
James S. Gwin is a United States federal judge.Born in Canton, Ohio, Gwin graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Louisville, Ohio and received an A.B. from Kenyon College in 1976 and a J.D. from the University of Akron School of Law in 1979. He was in private practice in Canton, Ohio...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| Dan A. Polster
Dan A. Polster
Dan A. Polster is a United States federal judge.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Polster received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1972 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976. He was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1976 to 1982, and an assistant U.S...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| John R. Adams
John R. Adams
John Randell Adams is a United States federal judge.Adams was born in Orrville, Ohio, and received a B.S. from Bowling Green State University in 1978, followed by a J.D. from University of Akron School of Law in 1983. He was a law clerk to W. F. Spicer of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas from 1983...

||George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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| Christopher A. Boyko
Christopher A. Boyko
Christopher Allan Boyko , is a United States federal judge.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Boyko is a second-generation Ukrainian American. He received a B.A. from Mount Union College in 1976 and a J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1979...

||George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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| Jack Zouhary
Jack Zouhary
Jack Zouhary is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.Zouhary was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio as the son of Lebanese immigrants. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1973. He received a J.D...

||George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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| Sara Elizabeth Lioi
Sara Elizabeth Lioi
Sara Elizabeth Lioi is a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She joined the court in 2007 after being nominated by President George W...

||George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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| Benita Y. Pearson
Benita Y. Pearson
Benita Yalonda Pearson is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and formerly a United States magistrate judge on the same court.-Early life and education:...

||Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

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| George Washington White
George Washington White
George Washington White is a United States federal judge.White was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. He received a J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1955. He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1956 to 1968. He was a Referee, Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County from 1957...

||Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| John William Potter
John William Potter
John William Potter is a United States federal judge.Born in Toledo, Ohio, Potter received a Ph.B. from the University of Toledo in 1940 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1946. He joined the United States Army Reserve, serving from 1946 to 1951. Potter was in private...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| David Dudley Dowd Jr.
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
David Dudley Dowd Jr. is a United States federal judge in Akron, Ohio.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dowd received a B.A. from College of Wooster in 1951 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1954. He was in private practice in Massillon, Ohio from 1954 to 1955...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Lesley B. Wells
Lesley B. Wells
Lesley Brooks Wells was appointed as a federal judge in 1994 and since February 2006 has continued to serve as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.Wells earned a B.A...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| James G. Carr
James G. Carr
James G. Carr is a federal district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.Carr was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Kenyon College in 1966, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1969. He was in private practice of law in Chicago,...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| David A. Katz
David A. Katz
David A. Katz is a United States federal judge.Born in Toledo, Ohio, Katz received a B.S. from Ohio State University in 1955, and a J.D. from Ohio State University College of Law in 1957. He was in private practice in Toledo, Ohio from 1957 to 1994, focusing on corporate law.Katz was a federal...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| Peter C. Economus
Peter C. Economus
Peter C. Economus is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.Economus was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Youngstown State University in 1967, and received a J.D. from the University of Akron School of Law in 1970...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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Former judges

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Ann Aldrich
Ann Aldrich
Ann Aldrich was a United States federal judge.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Aldrich received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1948 and an LL.B. from the New York University School of Law in 1950. She also attended the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Institut des Hautes Etudes...

Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| Alice M. Batchelder
Alice M. Batchelder
Alice Moore Batchelder is an American attorney and jurist. She currently is chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and was considered by President George W. Bush as a potential nominee for a U.S. Supreme Court seat that ultimately went to Justice Samuel Alito. Her...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Frank J. Battisti
Frank J. Battisti
Frank James Battisti was an American jurist who served as the 21st district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, between 1961 and 1990. He spent 22 of his 31 years on the District Court as chief judge, replacing Judge Girard E...

||John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Samuel H. Bell
Samuel H. Bell
Samuel H. Bell is a former United States federal judge.Born in Rochester, New York, Bell was the only child of Marie Bell and Samuel Bell. The family moved to Akron, Ohio, where Bell attended Buchtel High School before going to the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from Wooster...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1922.-Early life:...

||Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| James C. Connell
James C. Connell
James C. Connell was a United States federal judge.Connell was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received an LL.B. from John Marshall School of Law in Cleveland in 1918. He was in private practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio from 1918 to 1922...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Leroy John Contie, Jr.
Leroy John Contie, Jr.
Leroy John Contie, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Contie was born in Canton, Ohio. He received his Bachelor of Arts from University of Michigan in 1941 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1948....

||Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| William Louis Day
William Louis Day
William Louis Day was a United States federal judge.Born in Canton, Ohio, Day was a son of William R. Day of the United States Supreme Court and Mary Elizabeth Day. He attended Williston Seminary and received an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1900. He was in private practice...

||William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

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| Emerich B. Freed
Emerich B. Freed
Emerich Burt Freed was a United States federal judge.Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1897, Freed attended grammar school there, and graduated from Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio....

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Ben Charles Green
Ben Charles Green
Ben Charles Green was a United States federal judge.Green was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Isadore and Rose Green. He spent one year at Ohio State University in 1925 before transferred to Case Western Reserve University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in 1928....

||John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| George Philip Hahn
George Philip Hahn
George Philip Hahn was a United States federal judge.Born in Napoleon, Ohio, Hahn received an LL.B. from Ohio State University College of Law in 1905...

||Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

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| Paul J. Jones
Paul J. Jones
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||Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

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| Girard Edward Kalbfleisch
Girard Edward Kalbfleisch
Girard Edward Kalbfleisch was a United States federal judge.Born in Piqua, Ohio, Kalbfleisch received an LL.B. from Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law in 1923. He was in private practice in Mansfield, Ohio from 1924 to 1929. He was a Prosecuting attorney of Richland County, Ohio from...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| John Milton Killits
John Milton Killits
John Milton Killits was a United States federal judge.Born in Lithopolis, Ohio, Killits received an A.B. from Williams College in 1880, an LL.B. from Columbian University in 1885, an LL.M. from Columbian University in 1886, and an A.M. from Williams College in 1887...

||William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

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| Frank Le Blond Kloeb
Frank Le Blond Kloeb
Frank Le Blond Kloeb was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.-Biography:Frank L. Kloeb was born in Celina, Ohio. He attended the parochial and public schools, Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Alvin I. Krenzler
Alvin I. Krenzler
Alvin Irving "Buddy" Krenzler was a former United States federal judge.Krenzler was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Case Western Reserve University in 1946 and his LL.B. from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1948.Krenzler served in the United...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Robert B. Krupansky
Robert B. Krupansky
Robert B. Krupansky was a United States federal judge.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Krupansky was in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946. He received a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in 1946, and an LL.B. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1948. He was a...

||Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| Thomas Demetrios Lambros
Thomas Demetrios Lambros
Thomas Demetrios Lambros is a former United States federal judge.Lambros was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. He was the son of Greek immigrants Demetrios P. and Panagoula Lambros and the youngest of five brothers. He graduated from Ashtabula High School in 1948 and attended Fairmont State College in...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| John Michael Manos
John Michael Manos
John Michael Manos was a United States federal judge for 30 years.-Early life and education:Manos was born to Maria and Michael E. Manos on December 8, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in the Tremont neighborhood. Like many Depression-era Cleveland kids, he worked odd jobs at the West Side...

||Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

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| Paul Ramon Matia
Paul Ramon Matia
Paul Ramon Matia is a former United States federal judge.Matia was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Western Reserve University in 1959. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1962. He was in private practice in Fairview Park, Ohio from 1962 to 1963. He was a law clerk, Court...

||George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

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| Charles Joseph McNamee
Charles Joseph McNamee
Charles Joseph McNamee was a United States federal judge.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, McNamee received an LL.B. from Cleveland Law School in 1917. He was in the United States Army from 1917 to 1919. He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1921 to 1933. He was a Chief assistant county...

||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| Richard B. McQuade Jr.
Richard B. McQuade Jr.
Richard B. McQuade Jr. is a former United States federal judge.Born in Toledo, Ohio, McQuade received a B.A. from the University of Toledo in 1961 and a J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law in 1965. He was an Assistant prosecutor, Fulton County, Ohio from 1966 to 1968. He was a...

||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

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| Kathleen M. O'Malley
Kathleen M. O'Malley
Kathleen McDonald O'Malley is a United States federal judge.Born in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, O'Malley received a double A.B. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1979, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her majors were honors history and economics; she graduated in both with...

||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

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| Augustus J. Ricks
Augustus J. Ricks
Augustus J. Ricks was a United States federal judge.Born in Brookfield, Ohio, Ricks attended Kenyon College and read law to enter the bar in 1866. He was a Captain in the United States Army during the American Civil War, from 1862 to 1865, serving with the 104th Ohio Infantry. He read law in the...

||Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

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| Charles Taylor Sherman
Charles Taylor Sherman
Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century Ohio lawyer and judge.-Early life:He was the eldest of eleven children born to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Sherman. He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut...

||Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

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| Robert Walker Tayler
Robert Walker Tayler
Robert Walker Tayler was a United States federal judge.Born in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of Mayor Robert Walker Tayler, Sr., Tayler attended the public schools and received an A.B. from Western Reserve College in 1872 and taught in the high school in New Lisbon , Ohio...

||Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| William Kernahan Thomas
William Kernahan Thomas
William Kernahan Thomas was a United States federal judge.Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thomas received a B.A. from Ohio State University in 1932 and a J.D. from Ohio State University College of Law in 1935. He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1935 to 1944. He was a U.S. Naval Reserve...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Nicholas Joseph Walinski, Jr.
Nicholas Joseph Walinski, Jr.
Nicholas Joseph Walinski, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Toledo, Ohio, Walinski was in the United States Navy Lieutenant during World War II and its aftermath, from 1942 to 1948. He received a B.S. from the University of Toledo in 1949 and an LL.B. from the University of Toledo...

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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| Paul Charles Weick
Paul Charles Weick
Paul Charles Weick was a United States federal judge.Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Weick was a Students army training corps in 1918. He received an LL.B. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1920...

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Martin Welker
Martin Welker
Martin Welker was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.-Biography:Born in Knox County, Ohio, Welker attended the common schools.He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840, commencing practice at Millersburg, Ohio...

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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

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| Samuel H. West
Samuel H. West
Samuel H. West was a United States federal judge.Born in Waubeck, Iowa, West read law to enter the bar in 1893, and entered private practice in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He served in the United States Army, Second Ohio Infantry, during the Spanish-American War...

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Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

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| David C. Westenhaver
David C. Westenhaver
David C. Westenhaver was a United States federal judge.Born in Berkeley County, West Virginia, Westenhaver received an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law School in 1886. He was in private practice in Martinsburg, West Virginia from 1886 to 1903. He was a Prosecuting attorney of Berkeley County,...

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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| Robert Nugen Wilkin
Robert Nugen Wilkin
Robert Nugen Wilkin was a United States federal judge.Born in New Philadelphia, Ohio, Wilkin received an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1908. He was in private practice in New Philadelphia, Ohio from 1908 with his brother, David R., and his father, J. Foster Wilkin, under...

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Hiram V. Willson
Hiram V. Willson
Hiram V. Willson was a United States federal judge.Willson graduated from Hamilton College in 1832 and read law to enter the Bar in Ohio...

||Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...

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| Francis Joseph Wing
Francis Joseph Wing
Francis Joseph Wing was a United States federal judge.Born in North Bloomfield, Ohio, Wing was educated at Harvard University and read law to enter the bar in 1874. He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1874 to 1899. He was an assistant United States Attorney of the Northern District...

||William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

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| Don John Young
Don John Young
Don John Young was a United States federal judge.Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Young received an A.B. from Case Western Reserve University in 1932 and an LL.B. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1934. He was in private practice in Norwalk, Ohio from 1934 to 1952. He was a judge of the...

||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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