James Moore Wayne (1790 – July 5, 1867) was an American attorney, judge and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1835 to 1867. He previously served as the sixteenth mayor of Savannah, Georgia, from 1817 to 1819 and the member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's at-large congressional district from 1829 to 1835, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
James Moore Wayne
Supreme Court of the United States
Born 1790 in Savannah, GA
Died 1867 in Washington, DC
FJC ID: 2522
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 8/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 37/year
Supreme Court of the United States · 1835–1867
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
- U.S. representative from Georgia1829–1835
- Superior Court of GeorgiaJudge · 1824–1829
- Private practice, Savannah, Georgia1810–1812, 1819–1824
- Court of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer for the City of Savannah [Georgia]Judge · 1819–1824
- Savannah, GeorgiaMayor · 1816–1819
- GeorgiaState representative · 1815–1816
U.S. Army captain1812–1815
Appointments
1835–1867 · Appointed by Andrew Jackson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- Read law1810
- College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)1808