About Charles S. Reid
Lived 1898 – 1947 (aged 48–49). Charles S. Reid was a military personnel.
Charles Simpson Reid (September 25, 1897 – November 7, 1947) was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1938 to 1943.
Born in Blairsville, Georgia, Reid attended Young Harris College and graduated from Atlanta Law School in 1918. After working his way up from being a bank teller to bank vice president, he joined with partners to form the law firm of Little Powell and Reid, and became Georgia Democratic executive committee chairman. In 1938, Governor Eurith D. Rivers appointed Reid chief justice of the state supreme court, making the 41-year-old the youngest chief justice in the United States at the time.
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Who was Charles S. Reid?
American judge (1898–1947)
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Charles S. Reid was born in 1898.
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Charles S. Reid died in 1947.
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Charles S. Reid was a military personnel.
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