About Virgil Bouldin
Lived 1866 – 1949 (aged 82–83). Virgil Bouldin was an American politician.
Virgil Bouldin (October 20, 1866 – July 30, 1949) 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, and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee,
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.
In 1895, Bouldin married Irene Jacoway, of Dardanelle, Arkansas, with whom he had three children, including one son and one daughter who survived him. Bouldin died at his home in Scottsboro, Alabama, at the age of 82, and was buried at Scottsboro's Cedar Hill Cemetery. At the time of his death, he was the only living former supreme court justice in the state.
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Who was Virgil Bouldin?
American judge (1866–1949)
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Virgil Bouldin was born on 20 October 1866.
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Virgil Bouldin died in 1949.
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Virgil Bouldin was a politician.
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