James Edmund Boyd

Personal

Birthday: 
2/14/1845
Birthplace: 
Alamance County, NC
Date of Death: 
8/21/1935
Place of Death: 
Greensboro, NC
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Confederate Army private, Thirteenth North Carolina Infantry and First North Carolina Cavalry
Private practice, North Carolina, 1868-1880, 1885-1897
State representative, North Carolina, 1874-1875
Delegate, North Carolina constitutional convention, 1875
U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, 1880-1885
Assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1897-1900

Education

Name of School: 
Davidson College
Name of School - Second: 
Read law
Degree Year - Second: 
1868

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina
Court Name: 

North Carolina Western District Court

President Nominating: 
William McKinley
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
1/9/1901
Termination Date: 
8/21/1935
Termination Reason: 
Death