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Thomas Walter Swan

Thomas Walter Swan

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Born 1877 in Norwich, CT

Died 1975

FJC ID: 2320

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 19/year

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · 1926–19751926194019601980200020202025190
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 230/year

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · 1926–197519261940196019802000202020252300
citing decisions

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · 1926–1975

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.

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Thomas Walter Swan (December 20, 1877 – July 13, 1975) was a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Judicial Conference of the United States
    Member · 1951–1953
  2. Yale Law School
    Dean and professor of law · 1916–1927
  3. Private practice, Chicago, Illinois
    1903–1916
  4. University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    Lecturer in law · 1903–1904, 1908

Appointments

  1. Second Circuit Court of Appeals
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitChief Judge
    1926–1975 · Appointed by Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School
    LL.B. · 1903
  2. Yale University
    A.B. · 1900