Waller Washington Graves
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Waller Washington Graves
OR:
Waller Washington Graves on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Waller Washington Graves (December 17, 1860 – June 17, 1928) was a justice of the
Supreme Court of Missouri The Supreme Court of Missouri (SCOMO) is the highest court in the state of Missouri. It was established in 1820 and is located at 207 West High Street in Jefferson City, Missouri. Missouri voters have approved changes in the state's constituti ...
from 1906 to 1928.


Early life, education, and career

Born in
Lafayette County, Missouri Lafayette County is a County (United States), county in the western portion of Missouri, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 32,984. Its county seat is Lexington, Misso ...
, Graves attended the local schools and the
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...
. He gained
admission to the bar An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are dist ...
in 1885, and practiced in
Butler, Missouri Butler is a city and the county seat of Bates County, Missouri, United States and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The population was 4,220 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The city is named for William Orlando Butler ...
. Beginning in 1893, he practiced as the partner of
Harvey C. Clark Harvey C. Clark (September 7, 1869 – April 11, 1921) was an American attorney and military officer from Missouri. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat in politics, he served as prosecuting attorney of Bates County, Missouri , for two ter ...
. Graves was elected as a circuit court judge in 1899.


Supreme court service

In April 1906, Governor Joseph W. Folk appointed Graves to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Justice William Champe Marshall. Graves won election to the seat later that year, and was reelected to a ten-year term in 1908. Following the death of
Joseph Rucker Lamar Joseph Rucker Lamar (October 14, 1857 – January 2, 1916) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft. A cousin of former associate justice Lucius Lamar, he served from 1911 until ...
in 1916, Graves was reported to be among the candidates being considered by President
Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only History of the Democratic Party (United States), Democrat to serve as president during the Prog ...
to fill Lamar's seat on the
Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all Federal tribunals in the United States, U.S. federal court cases, and over Stat ...
, though Wilson ultimately nominated
Louis Brandeis Louis Dembitz Brandeis ( ; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to ...
. Graves was again reelected to the Missouri Supreme Court in 1918, and ran unopposed in the primary for reelection in 1928, but died before the general election that year.


Personal life and death

On June 30, 1892, Graves married Alice Ludwick, with whom he had three sons who survived him. Graves died of
pneumonia Pneumonia is an Inflammation, inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as Pulmonary alveolus, alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of Cough#Classification, productive or dry cough, ches ...
in his home in
Jefferson City, Missouri Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital of the U.S. state of Missouri. It had a population of 43,228 at the 2020 United States census, ranking as the List of cities in Missouri, 16th most popu ...
, at the age of 67.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Graves, Waller Washington 1860 births 1928 deaths University of Missouri alumni Judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri