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John Hazelton Cotteral

John Hazelton Cotteral

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Born 1864 in Middletown, IN

Died 1933

FJC ID: 515

John Hazelton Cotteral (September 26, 1864 – April 22, 1933) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

A native of Indiana, Cotteral attended the University of Michigan, where he studied law, then read law until 1885. He moved to Kansas, where he entered a private legal practice. He then met A. C. G. Bierer, and the two formed a partnership. In 1889, they joined the 1889 Land Run into what was then named as Oklahoma Territory, and settled in the city of Guthrie, which had been named the territorial capital. Their partnership dissolved when President Grover Cleveland appointed Bierer to the Oklahoma Territory Supreme Court

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Private practice, Guthrie, Oklahoma
    1889–present
  2. Private practice, Garden City, Kansas
    1885–1889

Appointments

  1. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
    1929–1933 (None (reassignment))
    Term ended: Death
  2. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
    1928–1929 · Appointed by Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
    Term ended: Reassignment
  3. Oklahoma Western District Court
    U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
    1908–1928 · Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
    Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position

Education

  1. University of Michigan
  2. Read law
    1885