Draft:James O. Shackleford
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James O. Shackleford (1809 – 1880) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1865 to 1868.
Appointed by Parson Brownlow
appointed August 24, 1865; chancellor of Nashville Division, February 28, 1868, to December 16, 1868.[1]
The last appointee of the original three, Shackelford attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He obtained a law license in 1832 and opened an office in Dover, Tennessee. In 1838, he moved his practice to Clarksville, where he remained until his appointment to the Supreme Court, August 24, 1865. In February, 1868, Shackelford resigned to become Chancellor of the Nashville division.[2]
In 1868, the sitting judges resigned and, therefore, there were no judges to hold the September session. Brownlow reappointed Shackelford and also appointed Horace Maynard, a lawyer and a Radical member of Congress.[2]
"This court is known to lawyers as the "apocryphal" court. Many of its decisions have been overruled, and its opinions are infrequently referred to as authority".[3]
Shackleford himself resigned in February 1868.[4]
James O. Shackleford was a native of Kentucky, but at an early age removed with his parents to Missouri. During his early manhood he was engaged in trapping in New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest. After his return he studied law and began practice at Dover, Stewart County. Later he removed to Clarksville, and formed a partnership with James Rivers, with whom he practiced for a time. He afterward was associated with Gustav A. Henry, continuing until the beginning of the civil war. During that struggle he espoused the Union cause, yet he always sympathized with the misfortunes of his neighbors on the other side, and through his influence prevented much suffering. In 1865, with Hawkins and Milligan, he was placed upon the supreme bench by appointment of Gov. Brownlow. He resigned in 1867, but was reappointed the following year. In 1869 he resumed the practice of his profession in Nashville; there he continued until about 1875, when he moved to Colorado. Judge Shackleford was a man of good ability and considerable learning. He was not an eloquent speaker, but possessed reasoning powers of a high order.[5]
https://tslaindexes.tn.gov/tn-research/content/james-o-18
References
- ^ Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society. "Justices".
- ^ a b https://www.tschsociety.org/files/fall_2010_newsletter.pdf
- ^ Albert D. Marks, "The Supreme Court of Tennessee", Part III, The Green Bag, Volume 5 (1893), p. 183.
- ^ "Resigned", Bolivar Bulletin (February 29, 1868), p. 2.
- ^ History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present, Part 1 (Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1886), p. 405.
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