The U.S. Senate votes 38-1 to confirm Noah Haynes Swayne of Ohio to the U.S. Supreme Court

John McLean had died the previous year and President Lincoln followed his earlier advice to replace him with his close friend Noah Haynes Swayne.  Virginia-born Swayne was a 58 year-old anti-slavery Republican who was to serve on the highest court until January 1881.  The Senate vote to confirm him was 38-1 with nine other senators absent.  His only dissenting vote came from Republican John Parker Hale of New Hampshire.  (By John Osborne)