- Connally Findlay Trigg (judge)
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Connally Findlay Trigg (March 8, 1810 – April 25, 1880) was a United States federal judge.
Born in Abingdon, Virginia, Trigg read law in 1833 and had a private practice in Abingdon until 1856. He was a member of the Abingdon Town Council beginning in 1835, and a Clerk of the Washington County Court in Abingdon from 1838 to 1852. He was in private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee from 1856 to 1861.
On July 16, 1862, Trigg was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln to a joint appointment to the United States District Courts]] for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Tennessee, all vacated by West H. Humphreys. Trigg was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 17, 1862, and received his commission the same day. Trigg's service to the Eastern District was terminated by operation of law on June 14, 1878, with his assignment being reduced to the remaining districts. Trigg served on the Middle and Western districts until his death, in 1880, in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
Sources
- Connally Findlay Trigg (judge) at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Categories:- 1810 births
- 1880 deaths
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
- United States federal judges appointed by Abraham Lincoln
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