President Franklin Pierce Appoints a Key Supporter to a Federal Judgeship
A very uncommon Pierce judicial appointment, we first we have ever had
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David A. Smalley was a Vermont attorney active in the Democratic Party. He served on the Democratic National Committee and in 1852 supported the presidential campaign of Franklin Pierce. At the 1852 Democratic National Convention he was Vice Chairman of the Vermont delegation and a member of the platform committee. A month...
David A. Smalley was a Vermont attorney active in the Democratic Party. He served on the Democratic National Committee and in 1852 supported the presidential campaign of Franklin Pierce. At the 1852 Democratic National Convention he was Vice Chairman of the Vermont delegation and a member of the platform committee. A month after taking office, President Pierce appointed him Collector of Customs for the District of Vermont, an office he held for almost four years. Pierce was not renominated, and before leaving office on March 4, 1857, he chose to reward some friends with last-minute appointments. On February 2, 1857, Pierce named Smalley as a Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. Smalley was confirmed and received his appointment the next day, and served until his death in 1877.
Document signed, as president, Washington, February 3, 1857, appointing David A. Smalley, and saying “I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Vermont…”
A very uncommon Pierce judicial appointment, we first we have ever had.
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