David Campbell Humphreys

Personal

Birthday: 
11/9/1817
Birthplace: 
Morgan County, AL
Date of Death: 
7/12/1879
Place of Death: 
Fairfax County, VA
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Madison County, Alabama
State representative, Alabama, 1843, 1849, 1853, 1868
Planter and private practice, Huntsville, Alabama, 1850-
Confederate Army colonel

Nominated to U.S. District Courts for the Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama, January 13, 1873; Senate returned nomination to president, February 13, 1873

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia [Supreme Court of the District of Columbia]
Court Name: 

District of Columbia District Court

President Nominating: 
Ulysses Grant
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
05/13/1870
Termination Date: 
07/02/1879
Termination Reason: 
Death