Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr.

Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr. (May 20, 1847 – April 15, 1923) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Second Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.

Early life Coxe was born on May 20, 1847, in Auburn, New York. He was a son of the Rev. Samuel Hanson Coxe (1819–1895) and Eliza ( Conkling) Coxe (1822–1868).

His paternal grandfather was the abolitionist minister Samuel Hanson Cox and his uncle was Arthur Cleveland Coxe, the Episcopal Bishop of Western New York. His maternal grandfather was Alfred Conkling, who served as a U.S. Representative from upstate New York and a judge in the Northern District. He was also a nephew of Roscoe Conkling, who was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York.

Coxe was educated at the Oxford Academy, the Utica Academy before attending Hamilton College. He later received an LL.D. from Columbia University.

Federal judicial service On April 24, 1882 Coxe was nominated by President Chester A. Arthur to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York vacated by Judge William J. Wallace. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 4, 1882, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on June 14, 1902, due to his elevation to the Second Circuit. He was confirmed by the Senate on June 3, 1902, and received his commission the same day. On December 31, 1911, the Circuit Courts were abolished and he thereafter served only on the Court of Appeals. His service terminated on July 31, 1917, due to his retirement. Together, they were the parents of five children:

Gertrude Doolittle Coxe (b. 1878), who married John Trumbull Robinson, a son of Henry Robinson of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1905. Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (1884–1970), who also became a federal judge, serving on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1929 to 1957; he married Helen Emery, a daughter of Woodward Emery of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1913. Isabel Elise Coxe (b. 1883), who married architect Louis Seabury Weeks, in 1913. Charles Shearman Coxe (1886–1955), who married Helen Osborn, daughter of the Rev. Louis Shreve Osborn of Salem, Massachusetts in 1913. Howard Cleveland Coxe (1897–1940), was a newspaperman and novelist.

Coxe died on April 15, 1923, in Hartford, Connecticut.