Edward Ladson Fishburne was a
South Carolina
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, seat = Columbia
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state supreme court justice and grandson of Lieutenant Governor
Merrick E. Carn.
He graduated from
The Citadel
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, commonly known simply as The Citadel, is a Public college, public United States senior military college, senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1842, it is one ...
in 1904 and taught school for two years afterwards. He later entered the legal profession of his father, William Josiah Fishburne, a distinguished South Carolina lawyer. After his father's death, he took a partner named Major Madison P. Howell, a longtime friend. He also served as Walterboro mayor, like his grandfather, and as a state militia officer. He was appointed to the office of associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on April 17, 1935,
which he held for some 19 years until 1954.
He married Ms. Mary Gage, the daughter of South Carolina Associate Supreme Court Justice
George W. Gage of Chester. The Fishburnes had two biological children and adopted four others.
In 2003, the South Carolina Chief Justice
Jean H. Toal met with the family to unveil a portrait of the late justice.
References
External links
*http://www.judicial.state.sc.us/whatsnew/displaywhatsnew.cfm?indexID=156
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1883 births
1964 deaths
Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court
20th-century American judges