Who appointed George Harrold Carswell?

President Richard M. Nixon appointed George Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1969.

Was George Harrold Carswell appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

George Harrold Carswell was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was George Harrold Carswell's confirmation vote?

George Harrold Carswell was confirmed by voice vote on June 19, 1969. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Fifth Circuit / Appointed 1969 / Served to 1970

George Harrold Carswell

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Appointed by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969 and confirmed by voice vote, George Harrold Carswell was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He earned a law degree from Mercer University School of Law in 1948. He previously served on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–1992
Appointed by: Richard M. Nixon, 1969
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Duke 1941 · Mercer Law 1948
Succeeded by: Paul Hitch Roney

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Northern District of Florida succeeded Dozier Adolphus DeVane	Eisenhower (R)	Voice vote
1969	Fifth Circuit	Nixon (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

U.S. Naval Academy
University of Georgia School of Law
Duke University	A.B.	1941
Mercer University School of Law	LL.B.	1948

Judicial Record

In our data, Carswell authored 22 published opinions for the court (1958–1969). Most cited: Due v. Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (34 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
1963	Due v. Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University	233 F. Supp. 396	34
1962	Bonnell v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company	202 F. Supp. 53	34
1962	Centraal Stikstof Verkoopkantoor N v. v. Pensacola Port Authority	205 F. Supp. 724	14
1965	Pinkney v. Meloy	241 F. Supp. 943	13
1962	Motor Fuel Carriers, Inc. v. United States	202 F. Supp. 497	11
1965	United States v. Ammons	242 F. Supp. 461	10
1968	Fleming v. COLONIAL STORES, INCORPORATED	279 F. Supp. 933	9
1959	Local Union No. 1055, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Gulf Power Co.	175 F. Supp. 315	9
1964	McCullough v. United States	231 F. Supp. 740	8
1962	Jenkins v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.	204 F. Supp. 361	8
1969	First National Bank of Homestead, Florida v. Dickinson	291 F. Supp. 855	7
1961	Brooks v. City of Tallahassee	202 F. Supp. 56	7
1966	Meadows v. FW Woolworth Company	254 F. Supp. 907	6
1959	Bowman v. ATLANTA BAGGAGE & CAB COMPANY	173 F. Supp. 282	6
1964	Youngblood v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTR. OF BAY COUNTY, FLA.	230 F. Supp. 74	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 George Harrold Carswell?: President Richard M. Nixon appointed George Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1969.
Was George Harrold Carswell appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: George Harrold Carswell was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was George Harrold Carswell's confirmation vote?: George Harrold Carswell was confirmed by voice vote on June 19, 1969. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was George Harrold Carswell on?: George Harrold Carswell was a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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