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[mac truck] On a separate point, it is interesting to speculate who would have been appointed to a confederate supreme court. Roger Taney comes to mind (even though he died in 1863). Are there any other confederate jurists who might have been considered?

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney served on the U.S. Supreme Court until his death, October 12, 1864.

"HILL, WILLIAM PINCKNEY." The Handbook of Texas Online.

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HILL, WILLIAM PINCKNEY (?-1870). William Pinckney Hill, Confederate judge, was born in Georgia, the son of John and Sarah (Parham) Hill; his birthdate is not known, but he was somewhat older than his brother, United States senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia, who was born in 1823.

In 1863 and again in 1865 Hill was widely mentioned as a candidate for governor but declined to run. He was considered a principal contender for chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Confederacy, a court debated but never established by the Confederate Congress. In 1866 he was nominated for the Supreme Court of Texas but refused to run. He practiced law in Galveston after the war and in 1869 went to Washington, D.C., to represent the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railway Company in a case pending before the United States Supreme Court. He became ill and went first to Tennessee and then to Georgia to recover. He died on April 30, 1870, while visiting his brother in Athens, Georgia.

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He was considered a principal contender for chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Confederacy, a court debated but never established by the Confederate Congress.

Considered by who?