Thomas Todd
Personal
Birthday:
1/23/1765
Birthplace:
King and Queen County, VA
Date of Death:
2/7/1826
Place of Death:
Frankfort, KY
Race or Ethnicity:
White
Gender:
Male Prior Employment:
Continental Army, 1779, 1781
Clerk, conventions seeking statehood for Kentucky, 1784-1792
Private practice, Danville, Kentucky, 1788-1801
Clerk, U.S. District Court, District of Kentucky, 1789-1792
Clerk, Kentucky constitutional conventions, 1792, 1799
Clerk, Lexington [Kentucky] Democratic Society, 1793-1794
Clerk, Kentucky House of Representatives, 1792-1801
Clerk, Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1799-1801
Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1801-1806
Chief justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky, 1806-1807
Education
Name of School:
Liberty Hall Academy (now Washington and Lee University)
Degree Year:
1783
Name of School - Second:
Read law
Degree Year - Second:
1786 Judicial Career
Court Name:
Supreme Court of the United States
Court Name:
Supreme Court of the United States
President Nominating:
Thomas Jefferson
Party Affiliation of President:
Jeffersonian Republican
Commission Date:
03/03/1807
Termination Date:
02/07/1826
Termination Reason:
Death Bankruptcy and Magistrate Services:
Allotment as Circuit Justice:
Seventh Circuit, March 3, 1807-February 7, 1826