Charles Henry Simonton (July 11, 1829 – April 25, 1904) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Charles Henry Simonton
Born 1829 in Charleston, SC
Died 1904 in Philadelphia, PA
FJC ID: 2195
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 13/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 14/year
South Carolina District Court · 1887–1893U.S. Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit · 1893–1904Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1893–1904
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Charleston, South Carolina1851–1886
- South CarolinaState representative · 1858–1862, 1865–1866, 1877–1886
- Confederate Army colonel1861–1865
- South Carolina House of RepresentativesAssistant clerk · 1851–1852
Appointments
1893–1904 · Appointed by Grover Cleveland (Democratic)Term ended: Death- 1893–1904 · Appointed by Grover Cleveland (Democratic)Term ended: Death
1887–1893 · Appointed by Grover Cleveland (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Read law1851
- South Carolina College (now University of South Carolina)1849