Edward Beers Thomas (August 4, 1848 – March 27, 1929) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Edward Beers Thomas
New York Eastern District Court
Born 1848 in Cortland, NY
Died 1929 in Brooklyn, NY
FJC ID: 2364
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1/year
New York Eastern District Court · 1898–1906
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
- Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Judicial DistrictJustice · 1907–1918
State senator · 1881–1885- Private practice
Appointments
1898–1906 · Appointed by William McKinley (Republican)Term ended: Resignation
Education
- Yale CollegeA.B. · 1870