John Cadwalader (jurist)

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John Cadwalader
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
In office
April 24, 1858 – January 26, 1879
Appointed byJames Buchanan
Preceded byJohn K. Kane
Succeeded byWilliam Butler
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 5th district
In office
March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857
Preceded byJohn McNair
Succeeded byOwen Jones
Personal details
Born(1805-04-01)April 1, 1805
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedJanuary 26, 1879(1879-01-26) (aged 73)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseMary Binney
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania

John Cadwalader (April 1, 1805 – January 26, 1879) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Philadelphia.

Life

Cadwalader was born in Philadelphia on April 1, 1805. His mother was Mary Biddle (1781–1850) of the Biddle family. His father Thomas Cadwalader (1779–1841), grandfather John Cadwalader (1742–1786) and great-grandfather Thomas Cadwalader (1708–1779) were all military leaders.[1] His maternal grandfather, Clement Biddle, was also a military leader, having served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1821, and read law in 1825. He was in private practice of law from 1825 to 1855. He was a lawyer for the Bank of the United States in 1830, and was vice provost of the Law Academy of Philadelphia from 1833 to 1853. He was a captain of the Pennsylvania State Militia in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1844, which was called out for the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. He was elected as a Democrat as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1857. He did not run for re-election.[2]

Cadwalader was nominated by President James Buchanan on April 19, 1858, to be a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He replaced John K. Kane (1795–1858). He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 24, 1858, and received his commission the same day.[3] He served in that capacity until he died on January 26, 1879.[4] He was buried in the Christ Church Burial Ground at the old Christ Church in Philadelphia.[2]

Family tree

Portrait of the jurist's son, John Cadwalader Jr., 1843–1925.[5]

Cadwalader first married Mary Binney (1805–1831), daughter of Horace Binney (1780–1875) with whom he had two daughters.[6] Daughter Mary Binney Cadwalader (1829–1861) married William Henry Rawle (1823–1889) in 1849; their daughter Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1923) married Frederick Rhinelander Jones on March 24, 1870, who was the brother of Edith Wharton (1862–1937); their daughter in turn was landscape architect Beatrix Cadwalader Jones Farrand (1872–1959).[6] The second daughter was Elizabeth Cadwalader (born 1831), who married George Harrison Hare (1822–1857).

Following his first wife's death from complications of childbirth, he married Henrietta Maria Bancker (1806–1889) with whom he had six children: Sarah Bancker Cadwalader (born 1834); Frances Cadwalader (1835–1881); Thomas Cadwalader (1837–1841); Charles Evert Cadwalader (1839–1907); Anne Cadwalader (1841–1878); John Cadwalader Jr. (1843–1925) who married Mary Helen Fisher (1844–1937); and George Cadwalader (1845–1846).[7]

Grandson John Cadwalader III (1874–1934) became trustee of the estate of his aunt Sophia Georgiana (Fisher) Coxe (1841–1926) which funded the MMI Preparatory School.[8]

References

  1. ^ "All-in-One Tree of John Cadwalader, Brg. Gen" (PDF). Cadwalader collection. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
  2. ^ a b United States Congress. "John Cadwalader (id: C000011)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  3. ^ Cadwalader, John at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  4. ^ "Death of Judge Cadwalader: The Career of a Remarkable Jurist Ended" (PDF). New York Times. January 27, 1879.
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ a b Charles Penrose Keith (1883). The provincial councillors of Pennsylvania, who held office between 1733–1776: and those earlier councillors who were some time chief magistrates of the province, and their descendants. W.S. Sharp Printing Company. pp. 260, 381–382.
  7. ^ "John Cadwalader Descent to Thomas F. Cadwalader II". Cadwalader Family Genealogy web site. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
  8. ^ "John Cadwalader, III Collection" (PDF). Collection 3014. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2011.

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Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district
March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 		Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
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