Editing Grover Cleveland (section)

===Judicial appointments===
{{main|List of federal judges appointed by Grover Cleveland}}
[[Image:Melville Weston Fuller Chief Justice 1908.jpg|upright|thumb|left|Chief Justice Melville Fuller.]]
During his first term, Cleveland successfully nominated two justices to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. The first, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, was a former [[Mississippi]] senator who served in Cleveland's Cabinet as Interior Secretary. When [[William Burnham Woods]] died, Cleveland nominated Lamar to his seat in late 1887. Lamar's nomination was confirmed by the narrow margin of 32 to 28.<ref>Daniel J. Meador, "Lamar to the Court: Last Step to National Reunion" ''Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986'': 27–47. {{ISSN|0362-5249}}</ref>

[[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[Morrison Waite]] died a few months later, and Cleveland nominated [[Melville Fuller]] to fill his seat on April 30, 1888. Fuller accepted. The [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] spent several months examining the little-known nominee, before the Senate confirmed the nomination 41 to 20. Cleveland was the second Democratic president to appoint a Chief Justice, after [[Andrew Jackson]].<ref>Willard L. King, ''Melville Weston Fuller – Chief Justice of the United States 1888–1910'' (1950)</ref><ref>Nevins, 445–450</ref>

Cleveland nominated 41 lower federal court judges in addition to his four Supreme Court justices. These included two judges to the [[United States circuit court]]s, nine judges to the [[United States Courts of Appeals]], and 30 judges to the [[United States district courts]].{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}