Elliott Northcott (April 26, 1869 – January 3, 1946) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Elliott Northcott
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1869 in Clarksburg, WV
Died 1946 in Arcadia, FL
FJC ID: 1783
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 19/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 63/year
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1927–1946
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, West Virginia1891–present
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia1905–1909, 1922–1927- Private practice, West Virginia1915–1922
U.S. Department of StateEnvoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary · 1909–1913- ↳to Columbia · 1909–1911
- ↳to Nicaragua · 1911
- ↳to Venezuela · 1911–1913
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1898–1905- Huntington, West VirginiaCity attorney · 1897–1898
Appointments
1927–1946 · Appointed by Calvin Coolidge (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Read law1891