Taylor Hudnall Stukes was an associate justice and chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Life

He was born in Manning, South Carolina attended

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; Washington and Lee University (LL.B., cum laude, 1919); and Erskine College (LL.D., 1969). He served as a lieutenant in World War I and practiced law in Manning, South Carolina. He served in the state House of Representatives from 1923 to 1926 and in the state Senate from 1927 to 1940. He was elected associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on February 29, 1940, and chief justice in 1956 upon the resignation of Chief Justice D. Gordon Baker. He died on February 20, 1961, as a result of complications from heart surgery.

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Chief Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court 1893 births People from Manning, South Carolina 1961 deaths Place of death missing 20th-century American judges {{US-state-judge-stub