George Hay (1765–1830)
George Hay, lawyer and judge, was born on 15 December 1765 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He practiced law in Petersburg and Richmond before his appointment as U.S. attorney for the District of Virginia (1803–1816). Hay then served in the Virginia state legislature and returned to private practice before President John Quincy Adams nominated him for a judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Confirmed in 1826, he held that post until his death.
Peter Graham Fish, Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1789–1835 (Washington, D.C.: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, 2002).
"George Hay." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310011644/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=b4c12627. Accessed 17 Sept. 2023.
George Hay at Federal Judicial Center.
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