Hugh Lennox Bond (16 December 1828-24 October 1893) was Judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the Fourth Circuit from 13 July 1870 to 24 October 1893, preceding Charles Henry Simonton.
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Hugh Lennox Bond was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1828, and he became a lawyer in 1851 and a member of the local Know Nothings during the 1850s. During the American Civil War, Bond advocated the enlistment of slaves in the Union Army. He went on to serve as a judge of the Baltimore City Criminal Court from 1860 to 1867, losing the 1867 gubernatorial election to Oden Bowie. He went on to serve as a circuit court judge from 1870 to 1893, and, in 1871, he presided over the trial of Ku Klux Klan members in Columbia, South Carolina and decided the 1876 South Carolina presidential electoral case. He died in office in 1893.