Reese, Warren S. (Warren Stone), 1866-1953.

Reese was born in 1866 in Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Ala., to Warren S. and Mary Elmore Reese. He graduated from the University of Ala. in 1890, where he obtained an LL.B degree. In 1897 he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the middle district of Ala. and he served at that post for fourteen years. He married Esse Whitfield and they had one son, Warren S. Jr., and was an Episcopalian. After serving in WWI as a major, Reese was appointed as special attorney of the U.S. and prosecuted the first peonage cases in Ala., which won him national fame. He died 1953 June 8.

From the description of Autobiography and history of Montgomery (Ala.), 1936-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122581482