Judicial Appointees by President, F.D. Roosevelt to G.W. Bush

President Supreme
Court		 Courts
of Appeals		 District
Courts		 Total
Appointments		 Total
Federal
Judgeships		 Partisan
Affiliation
(%)
Roosevelt
(1933-1945)		 9 52 136 197 262 96.4
Truman
(1945-1953)		 4 27 102 133 292 93.1
Eisenhower
(1953-1961)		 5 45 127 177 322 95.1
Kennedy
(1961-1963)		 2 20 102 124 395 90.9
Johnson
(1963-1969)		 2 41 125 168 449 94.5
Nixon
(1969-1974)		 4 45 182 231 504 92.8
Ford
(1974-1977)		 1 12 52 65 504 81.2
Carter
(1977-1981)		 0 56 206 262 657 89.1
Reagan
(1981-1989)		 3 83 292 378 740 92.7
Bush
(1989-1993)		 2 60 148 210 825 88.6
Clinton
(1993-2001)		 2 66 305 373 841 87.2
G.W. Bush
(2001- )		       205   84.8

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Ragsdale, Lyn. 1998. Vital Statistics on the Presidency: Washington to Clinton. Washington D.C: CQ Press; for the Clinton (1993-2001) era, O'Connor, Karen, Larry J. Sabato, Stefan D. Haag, and Gary A. Keith. 2004. American Government: Continuity and Change. New York: Longman; the G.W. Bush period came from http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/25/senate.judges/index.html.