Horace Harmon Lurton (February 26, 1844 – July 12, 1914) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and previously was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit.
Horace Harmon Lurton
Supreme Court of the United States
Born 1844 in Newport, KY
Died 1914 in Atlantic City, NJ
FJC ID: 1441
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 7/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 19/year
U.S. Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit · 1893–1909Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1893–1909Supreme Court of the United States · 1909–1914
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
Dean of law department · 1905–1909- Tennessee Supreme CourtJustice · 1886–1893
- Private practice, Clarksville, Tennessee1867–1875, 1878–1886
- Tennessee Chancery Court, Sixth Judicial DistrictChancellor · 1875–1878
- 5th Tennessee Infantry, 2nd Kentucky Infantry and 3rd Kentucky CavalryConfederate Army sergeant major · 1861–1865
Appointments
1909–1914 · Appointed by William H. Taft (Republican)Term ended: Death
1893–1909 · Appointed by Grover Cleveland (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position- 1893–1909 · Appointed by Grover Cleveland (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Douglas University, Chicago, Illinois
- Cumberland School of LawLL.B. · 1867