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.