Justice Staples (other)
Justice Staples may refer to: * Abram Penn Staples (1885–1951), American lawyer, legislator, associate justice of the Virginia Supreme Court and Attorney General of Virginia * James Frederick Staples (1929–2016), Australian judicial officer, Deputy President (1975–1989) of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission * Waller Redd Staples (1826–1897), American lawyer, slave owner, politician and associate justice of the Virginia Supreme Court * William R. Staples William R. Staples (1798–1868) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from June 1835 to March 7, 1856, serving as Chief Justice after 1854.Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations' (1891), p. 208-13. Born in Provid ...

Abram Penn Staples
Abram Penn Staples (September 18, 1885 – March 21, 1951) was a Virginia lawyer, legislator and jurist. He served for eleven years as the Attorney General of Virginia, and four years as a justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Early and family life Staples was born at Martinsville, Virginia in 1885 to Abram Penn Staples (1858–1913), a prominent Virginia lawyer and his wife. His grandfather, Samuel Granville Staples, was the elected clerk of the Circuit Court of Patrick County, Virginia and had signed the Articles of Secession in 1861. His uncle, Waller Redd Staples sat of the Virginia Court of Appeals from 1870–1881 and for three of those years also on the faculty of the Washington and Lee University School of Law. When young Abram was a child, his family moved to Roanoke, where he attended Roanoke High School. In 1904, because of poor health (and to facilitate his children's education), Abram Staples Sr. joined the Washington and Lee University law faculty, where he bec ...
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James Frederick Staples
James Frederick Staples (2 June 192927 April 2016), better known as Jim Staples, or as Justice Staples in legal contexts, was an Australian judicial officer. He served as a deputy president of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission from 1975 until its dissolution in 1989. Early life Staples was born in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) on 2 June 1929, on the brink of the Great Depression. His father, a former First World War serviceman, died in 1933, forcing his mother to take up factory work to earn a living, and causing Staples to spend part of his childhood living with extended family away from his mother and two younger brothers. Education Staples completed his secondary education at Canterbury Boys' High School. An enthusiastic student, he achieved statewide first place in Latin in the Leaving Certificate. This earned him a place at the University of Sydney, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1950 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1953. Communis ...
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Waller Redd Staples
Waller Redd Staples (February 24, 1826 – August 21, 1897) was a Virginia lawyer, slave-owner and politician who was briefly a member of the Virginia General Assembly before the American Civil War, became a Congressman serving the Confederate States of America during the war, and after receiving a pardon at the war's end became a judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and law professor at Washington and Lee University, as well as revisor of Virginia's laws (1884-1887). Early and family life Staples was born in Patrick County, Virginia to Col. Abram Penn Staples and his wife, the former Mary Stovall Penn. His paternal grandfather Samuel G. Staples and his maternal grandfather Abram Penn had served as soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, the former leading militia from Buckingham County, Virginia including at the Battle of Yorktown, and the latter leading militia from Henry County. His father was the clerk for Patrick county, as had been his grandfather, Keziah Staples ...
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