Edward Coke Billings

American judge

Edward Coke Billings (December 3, 1829 – December 1, 1893) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana .

Education and career

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Born on December 3, 1829, in Hatfield , Massachusetts , Billings graduated from Yale University in 1853 and received a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1855. He entered private practice in New York City , New York from 1855 to 1865. He continued private practice in New Orleans , Louisiana from 1865 to 1876.

Federal judicial service

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Billings was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant on January 10, 1876, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana vacated by Judge Edward Henry Durell . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 10, 1876, and received his commission the same day. Billings was reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on March 3, 1881, to a new seat authorized by 21 Stat. 507. His service terminated on December 1, 1893, due to his death in New Haven , Connecticut .

Unsuccessful nomination

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Billings was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to the United States Circuit Courts for the Fifth Circuit on January 24, 1881, but the Senate never voted on his nomination.

References

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   Edward Coke Billings at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .

Sources

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• Edward Coke Billings at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .

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