Charles C. Nott

Charles Cooper Nott, Sr. (1827 - March 6, 1916) was a Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims.

Biography

He was born in 1827 in Schenectady, New York, to Professor Joel B. Nott. He was a grandson of Eliphalet Nott, a long time President of Union College. Charles Cooper Nott graduated from Union College in 1848, was admitted to the bar and moved to New York in 1850, where he practised law until enlisting to fight at the beginning of the American Civil War. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel.^[1]

Abraham Lincoln appointed Nott to the Court of Claims in February, 1865, two months before the President died.^[1] He was the reporter of decisions of forty-eight volumes of the Court of Claims Reports.^[1] In 1896 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Claims by President Grover Cleveland.^[1] He wrote the unanimous opinion in Mrs. Lockwood's Case, 9 Ct. Cl. 346 (1874), denying Belva Ann Lockwood admission to the bar of the Court of Claims. She appealed to the United States Supreme Court and lost there as well.^[2]

Nott retired in 1905.^[1] He died on March 6, 1916, at 151 East Sixty-first Street, New York City.^[1] His son, Charles Cooper Nott, Jr., was a Judge of the Special Sessions Court.^[1]

Bibliography

• A treatise on the mechanics' lien laws of the state of New York (W. C. Little & co., 1856)
• The coming contraband (G.P. Putnam, 1862)
• Sketches of the war (C.T. Evans, 1863; A.D.F. Randolph, 1865)
• Sketches in prison camps (A. D. F. Randolph, 1865)
• The seven great hymns of the mediaeval church (Anson D. F. Randolph, 1866) OCLC 43736585[1][2], (New York, E. S. Gorham, 1902)[3][4]
• The Mystery of Pinckney Draught, New York (The Century Co., 1908)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Charles C. Nott Dies at 88". New York Times. March 7, 1916. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times/Charles_C._Nott_dies_at_88. "Charles Cooper Nott, former Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims and father of Judge Charles C. of the Special Sessions Court, died yesterday at 151 East Sixty-first Street in his eight-ninth year. President Lincoln, whose close friend he was, appointed Mr. Nott to the Court of Claims in February, 1865, and President Cleveland made him Chief Justice in 1896. When he retired in 1905, he had served forty years in the court. Mr. Nott was born in Schenectady, N. Y., and was a son of Professor Joel B. Nott and a grandson of Eliphalet Nott, President of Union College, from which Mr. Nott was graduated in 1848. After being admitted to the bar he removed to this city in 1850, and practised here until the beginning of the civil war, when he enlisted and was promoted to a Colonelcy. President Lincoln appointed him to the Court of Claims two months before his death. Mr. Nott was the author of several books, his last book, "The Mystery of Pinckney Draught, New York," being published in 1909. In addition he was the author of forty-eight volumes of the Court of Claims Reports." 
2. ^ Bennett, Marion Tinsley (1976). The United States Court of Claims: A History; Part I: The Judges, 1855–1976. Washington, D.C.: Committee on the Bicentennial of Independence and the Constitution of the Judicial Conference of the United States. 

External links

• Life in a Texas Prison Pen
• A sketch of the life and public services of William Adams Richardson (1898)

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