Also the last election-year nominee confirmed (Frank Murphy, by FDR in 1940) would have been nominated in November 1939 had the Senate been in session. Still, the reason the Senate confirmed Murphy was because it was run by the Democrats.
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Yes--definitely significant that until fairly recently, the Senate would have been in recess by now.
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I'm sure Lincoln would otherwise have had no problem getting the Republican Senate to make Chase the Chief Justice before the election.
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