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Horace Harmon Lurton

Horace Harmon Lurton

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States · 1893–1909

Horace Harmon Lurton , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Confederate Army soldier, lawyer, judge and politician (1844-1914)

Positions

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1909-12-20–1914-07-12

Education

Douglas University, Chicago, Illinois
Cumberland School of LawLL.B., 1867

Career

Confederate Army sergeant major, 5th Tennessee Infantry, 2nd Kentucky Infantry and 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, 1861-1865; Private practice, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1867-1875, 1878-1886; Chancellor, Tennessee Chancery Court, Sixth Judicial District, 1875-1878; Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court, 1886-1893; Dean of law department, Vanderbilt University, 1905-1909

Biography

Confederate Army soldier, lawyer, judge and politician (1844-1914)

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