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Justice Lurton, bottom left, with his home in Nashville, his wife, center, and children. Horace Harmon Lurton (February 26, 1844 – July 12, 1914) was a Confederate soldier and later, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Horace H. Lurton was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1910–14). Lurton enlisted in the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war and was twice taken prisoner, but he was paroled by President Abraham Lincoln the second time upon his mother’s appeal, pleading illness.
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Rufus Peckham. Succeeded by. James C. McReynolds. Horace Lurton was a man of the South. He was born in Kentucky and raised in Tennessee. He ventured north to attend the University of Chicago, but returned to the South fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He was captured but then escaped and then captured again.
The papers of Horace H. Lurton (1844-1914), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1910 to 1914, consist of 250 items (759 images) in one container. The collection spans the years 1860-1915, with the bulk dating from 1893 to 1915.
Read about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Horace Harmon Lurton got to the Court, including his education, career, and confirmation process.
LURTON, HORACE HARMON. Horace Harmon Lurton epitomized late-nineteenth-century judicial conservatism. Whether he was on the state or federal bench, restraint characterized Lurton's opinions. After a successful period in private practice in the 1860s and 1870s, Lurton won election to the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1886.
Horace H. Lurton Papers: Correspondence; Chronological; 1860-1863 Contributor: Lurton, Horace H. (Horace Harmon) Date: 1860
