John Anthony Danaher (January 9, 1899 – September 22, 1990) was a United States senator from Connecticut, and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
John Anthony Danaher
District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1899 in Meriden, CT
Died 1990 in West Hartford, CT
FJC ID: 557
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 18/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 157/year
District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · 1954–1990District of Columbia District Court · 1954–1990
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, Hartford, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C.1922–1953
- Republican Senatorial CommitteeCounsel · 1946–1953
- U.S. senator from Connecticut1939–1945
- State of ConnecticutSecretary of state · 1933–1935
District of ConnecticutAssistant U.S. attorney · 1922–1934
U.S. Army lieutenant1918
Appointments
1954–1990 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Yale University
- Yale UniversityA.B. · 1920