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John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815 – March 19, 1900) was a Republican congressman from Ohio, judge in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and a prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson. He is also the principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

During the Civil War, he strongly supported the Union and became a Radical Republican. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him Judge Advocate of the Union Army with the rank of Major in 1864, and he became Solicitor of the United States Court of Claims in 1865. He was also elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, which first met on March 4, 1865. Bingham, along with Joseph Holt, and Henry Lawrence Burnett were the three judges in charge of the Lincoln assassination trial.