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HORACE H. LURTON
was born in Newport, Kentucky, on February 26, 1844, and
raised in Clarksville, Tennessee. He Attended the University
of Chicago in 1860 but joined the Confederate Army at
the outbreak of the Civil War. Captured by Union soldiers,
he soon escaped, but he was recaptured and released from
prison just before the War ended. Lurton resumed his studies
and was graduated from Cumberland University Law School
in 1867. He returned to Clarksville and began the practice
of law. In 1875, at the age of thirty-one, he was appointed
by the Governor of Tennessee to the Sixth Chancery Division
of Tennessee and became the youngest Chancellor in the
history of the STATE. He resigned after three years and
resumed his law practice. Lurton was elected to the Tennessee
Supreme Court in 1886, and became its Chief Judge in 1893.
Later that year, President Grover Cleveland appointed
Lurton to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit, where he served for sixteen years. President
William H. Taft nominated Lurton to the Supreme Court
of the United States on December 13, 1909. The Senate
confirmed the appointment one week later. Lurton served
on the Supreme Court for four years. He died on July 12,
1914, at the age of seventy. |
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