Bailey Aldrich
Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959 and confirmed by voice vote, Bailey Aldrich was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1932. He previously served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓
- Lived
- 1907–2002
- Appointed by
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959
- Confirmed
- by voice vote
- Education
- Harvard 1928 · Harvard Law School 1932
- Succeeded
- Calvert Magruder
- Succeeded by
- Levin Hicks Campbell
Federal judicial service
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | District of Massachusetts | Eisenhower (R) | Voice vote |
| 1959 | First Circuit succeeded Calvert Magruder | Eisenhower (R) | Voice vote |
Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.
Confirmation vote
Voice vote
The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.
Education
| Harvard University | A.B. | 1928 |
| Harvard Law School | LL.B. | 1932 |
Judicial Record
Caseload & case types
In our data, Aldrich was assigned 171 district-court cases (1981–1993). Median time from filing to termination: 933 days across 171 closed cases.
Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.
In our data, Aldrich authored 77 published opinions for the court (1954–1991). Most cited: Greenfield v. Scafati (99 citations).
Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.
Selected opinions
| Year | Case | Citation | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Greenfield v. Scafati | 277 F. Supp. 644 | 99 |
| 1982 | Morse v. Mutual Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Whitman | 536 F. Supp. 1271 | 36 |
| 1975 | United States v. Gillette Co. | 406 F. Supp. 713 | 28 |
| 1954 | Textron, Inc. v. American Woolen Co. | 122 F. Supp. 305 | 22 |
| 1980 | Daley v. United States | 499 F. Supp. 1005 | 20 |
| 1959 | Local 205, United Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers v. General Electric Co. | 172 F. Supp. 53 | 20 |
| 1957 | Rubenstein v. Kleven | 150 F. Supp. 47 | 19 |
| 1955 | Emerson v. National Cylinder Gas Company | 131 F. Supp. 299 | 18 |
| 1959 | Casado v. Schooner Pilgrim, Inc. | 171 F. Supp. 78 | 17 |
| 1956 | United States v. Kamin | 136 F. Supp. 791 | 17 |
| 1954 | Gomes v. Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates | 127 F. Supp. 435 | 16 |
| 1958 | Tye v. Finkelstein | 160 F. Supp. 666 | 14 |
| 1955 | Hazelton v. Luckenbach Steamship Company | 134 F. Supp. 525 | 14 |
| 1955 | W. L. Mead, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters | 129 F. Supp. 313 | 14 |
| 1956 | Kleinschmidt v. United States | 146 F. Supp. 253 | 13 |
Showing the 15 most-cited of 77 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.
Questions & answers
- Who appointed Bailey Aldrich?
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Bailey Aldrich to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1959.
- Was Bailey Aldrich appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
- Bailey Aldrich was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
- What was Bailey Aldrich's confirmation vote?
- Bailey Aldrich was confirmed by voice vote on September 9, 1959. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
- Which court was Bailey Aldrich on?
- Bailey Aldrich was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Sources
Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.
- FJC Biographical Directory
- Wikidata
- Portrait: Administrative Office of the United States Courts (The Third Branch newsletter) (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
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43 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).