Editing Warren G. Harding (section)

====Judicial appointments====
{{Further|List of federal judges appointed by Warren G. Harding|Warren G. Harding Supreme Court candidates}}
Harding appointed four justices to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. When Chief Justice [[Edward Douglass White]] died in May 1921, Harding was unsure whether to appoint former president Taft or former Utah senator [[George Sutherland]]—he had promised seats on the court to both men. After briefly considering awaiting another vacancy and appointing them both, he chose Taft as Chief Justice. Sutherland was appointed to the court in 1922, to be followed by two other economic conservatives, [[Pierce Butler (justice)|Pierce Butler]] and [[Edward Terry Sanford]], in 1923.{{sfn|Trani & Wilson|pp=48–49}}

Harding also appointed six judges to the [[United States Courts of Appeals]], 42 judges to the [[United States district courts]], and two judges to the [[United States Court of Customs Appeals]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Biographical Dictionary of the Federal Judiciary |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |url=http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj |access-date=June 14, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730115701/http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj |archive-date=July 30, 2016 }} Searches run from page by choosing "select research categories" then check "court type" and "nominating president", then select type of court and Warren G. Harding.</ref>