Fletcher Mathews Haight

Fletcher Mathews Haight (November 28, 1799 – February 23, 1866) was a United States federal judge.

Haight was born in Elmira, New York, on November 28, 1799.[1] to General Samuel S. Haight and Sarah Mathews, Haight read law to enter the bar in 1820.[1] He was in private practice from 1820 to 1834 in Bath, New York and then in Rochester, New York.[1]

Haight was a New York state representative in 1833, and was a president of the City Bank of Rochester from 1834 to 1835, thereafter returning to private practice in Rochester until 1846, when he began the first phase of his journey west.[1] He was in private practice in St. Louis, Missouri from 1846 to 1854. He resumed his travels west and was in private practice in San Francisco, California from 1854 to 1861.[1]

On August 5, 1861, Haight was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California vacated by Isaac S. K. Ogier.[1] Haight was appointed to the position on the advice of Attorney General Edward Bates.[2]

Haight was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 5, 1861, and received his commission the same day.[1] Haight served in that capacity until his death, in 1866, in San Francisco, California.[1]

His son, Henry Huntly Haight was the 10th governor of California.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Fletcher Mathews Haight at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  2. ↑ Abraham Lincolnm to Edward Bates, August 5, 1861, in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 4 (Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 471.

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Preceded by
Isaac Stockton Keith Ogier		 Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
1861–1866		 Succeeded by
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