John Adams Sanders (October 16, 1866 – August 14, 1948)Services Are Slated For Retired Jurist
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'' (August 17, 1948), p. 8.Anthony M. Turano, ''The Nevada State Bar Journal'', Vol. 14 (1949), p. 36. was a justice of the

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from 1917 to 1935. He first joined as an associate justice, but was elevated to chief justice in 1921 by Governor Emmet D. Boyle. Born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of

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, he attended the

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, and gained admission to the bar in Virginia in 1890.John Adams Sanders
, ''Mason Valley News'' (October 19, 1916), p. 4. He followed a mining boom to Nevada in 1904, where he came to specialize in mining law, and settled in

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. He Sanders was described as "one of the eminent members of the Nevada Bar", notably fighting the

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in their efforts in the state. Sanders served on the Nevada Supreme Court for eighteen years. Sanders died at the Washoe General Hospital in Reno, "where he had been confined for several years", at the age of 81.

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Justices of the Nevada Supreme Court 1866 births 1948 deaths University of Virginia alumni {{Nevada-state-judge-stub