Papers of Stafford Gorman Whittle [manuscript] 1873-1960.

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Papers of Stafford Gorman Whittle [manuscript] 1873-1960.

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Correspondence, chiefly business, but occasional personal items, first as a lawyer at Martinsville, Henry Co., Va., later as Circuit Court Judge, 1881-Justice, 1901-16, of the Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, and as President of that body, 1917-19. There is much material on his election to the Supreme Court, his rejection, 1890, of a law professorship at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Correspondents include his wife Ruth Drewry Whittle; Samuel Armistead Anderson (former law partner), Edward Watts Saunders, Edward Calohill Burks, D. Mulford, Claude Augustus Swanson, Andrew Jackson Montague, and Judges George Moffett Harrison, John Alexander Buchanan, James Keith, and Richard Henry Cardwell. Of interest are a letter, 1912 June 26, Washington, D. C., William Howard Taft to Whittle, Martinsville, Va.; a letter, 1912 Aug. 17, Sea Grit, N. J., Woodrow Wilson to Whittle, Martinsville, Va. and a letter, 1914 Mar. 30, New Haven, Conn., Taft to Whittle, Martinsville, Va., urging him to join the American Bar Association as Taft's nominee.

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