Thomas Thompson Land (December 17, 1815 – June 27, 1893) was an associate justice of the

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from November 1, 1858, to April 3, 1865.

Biography

Born in

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, with his parents Land moved first to

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, and then to

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.''Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana'' (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., ''The Louisiana Historical Quarterly'' (1922), p. 119. He graduated from the

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, and was a member of the

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in 1839. He moved to

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in 1846, and was a judge of the District Court from 1854 to 1858, when he became a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He served as a member of the Convention of 1879, where he was chairman of the judiciary committee. He was the father of Justices Alfred D. Land, and John R. Land. He died in

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* * 1815 births 1893 deaths 19th-century Louisiana state court judges Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court People from Rutherford County, Tennessee People from Shreveport, Louisiana People of Louisiana in the American Civil War University of Virginia alumni 19th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature {{Louisiana-state-judge-stub