Thomas Ruffin Jr. (September 21, 1824 – May 23, 1889) was a justice of the

North Carolina Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina is the state of North Carolina's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists ...

from 1881 to 1883.Thomas W. Austin, Jr.,
Ruffin, Thomas, Jr.
, ''NCPedia'' (1994). Born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, he was the fourth son of North Carolina Chief Justice

Thomas Ruffin Thomas Ruffin (1787–1870) was an American jurist and justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1829 to 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859. He was chief justice of that Court from 1833 to 1852. Biography Thomas Ruffin was born on November ...

and Anne Kirkland Ruffin, and the grandson of state legislator Sterling Ruffin.

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