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Thomas N. McClellan (February 23, 1853 – February 10, 1906) was an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Alabama The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six-year terms. The Supreme Court is house ...
from 1889 to 1898, and chief justice from 1898 to 1906. He served in the
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from 1880 to 1884 and as
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from 1882 to 1889. In 1889, a fourth seat was added to the state supreme court, to which McClellan was appointed. He died during a train journey with his nephew Thomas C. McClellan, at the age of 52. His home was in
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. Thomas C. McClellen was elected to the supreme court later that same year. McClellan's father was state legislator Thomas J. McClellan, a Whig who served in the
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in 1862.


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