Virgil Bouldin
Virgil Bouldin (October 20, 1866 – July 30, 1949)[1][2] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1923 to 1944.
Educated in the public schools of Jackson County, Alabama, Bouldin received a B.A. from Winchester Normal College, in Winchester, Tennessee,[2][3] and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee,[2] in 1889, gaining admission to the bar that same year.[3]
Bouldin returned to Scottsboro to practice law,[1] and represented Jackson County in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1896,[1][3] He served on the Jackson County Democratic executive committee from 1890 to 1902, and on the state Democratic executive committee from 1907 to 1910, and from 1915 to 1916.[1]
He served as a private in the United States Army in the Spanish-American War, in the 2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment.[1][3]
He then returned to Jackson County "to devote himself to his law practice and his banking and lumber interests".[3][4]
On September 25, 1923, Governor William W. Brandon appointed Bouldin to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Justice Thomas C. McClellan, effective October 1, 1923.[3]
Bouldin served on the court for 21 years,[2] retiring to supernumerary status effective May 1, 1944.[5]
In 1895, Bouldin married Irene Jacoway, of Dardanelle, Arkansas, with whom he had three children, including one son and one daughter who survived him.[1][3] Bouldin died at his home in Scottsboro, Alabama, at the age of 82, and was buried at Scottsboro's Cedar Hill Cemetery.[1] At the time of his death, he was the only living former supreme court justice in the state.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h "Former State Supreme Court Judge Virgil Bouldin, 82, Dies", The Birmingham News (July 29, 1949), p. 11.
- ^ a b c d "Retired Judge Dies", The Fort Payne Journal (August 3, 1949), p. 1.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Virgil Bouldin" (PDF). Judiciary of Alabama. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
- ^ "Bouldin Succeeds McClellan", The Tuscaloosa News (September 26, 1923), p. 2.
- ^ "Three Judges Are Named By Sparks", The Tuskegee News (June 22, 1944), p. 1.