District Courts of the D.C. Circuit
Official photographs have been taken of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (previously the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (1863 – 1936) and the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia (1936 – 1948), typically in the years in which there was a change in the composition of the Court. The first such photograph was taken of the Cartter Court in 1863.
This exhibit contains all the official photographs of the Court taken from 1863 until 2020, the years of the Howell Court, except that the official photos of the Clabaugh Court (1903 – 1914) and the Eicher Court (1942 – 1944) are not available.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Justice David Kellogg Cartter's Courts from 1863 to 1887.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Justice Edward Franklin Bingham's Courts from 1887 to 1903.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Justice J. Harry Covington's Courts from 1914 to 1918.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Justice Walter McCoy's Courts from 1918 to 1929.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat's Courts from 1930 to 1941.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Judge Bolitha J. Laws' Courts from 1945 to 1958.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Judge F. Dickinson Letts' Courts from 1958 to 1959.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Judge David Pine's Courts from 1959 to 1961.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Judge Matthew F. McGuire's Courts from 1961 to 1966.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Judge Richmond B. Keech's Court in1966.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Judge Edward M. Curran's Courts from 1966 to 1971.
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Read about the judges and history of Chief Judge John J. Sirica's Courts from 1971 to 1974.
