Thomas Thompson Land (December 17, 1815 – June 27, 1893) was an associate justice of the

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from November 1, 1858, to April 3, 1865.

Biography

Born in

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, with his parents Land moved first to

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, and then to

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.''Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana'' (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., ''The Louisiana Historical Quarterly'' (1922), p. 119. He graduated from the

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, and was a member of the

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in 1839. He moved to

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in 1846, and was a judge of the District Court from 1854 to 1858, when he became a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He served as a member of the Convention of 1879, where he was chairman of the judiciary committee. He was the father of Justices Alfred D. Land, and

John R. Land John Rutherford Land (July 9, 1862 – April 18, 1941) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from October 13, 1921, to April 18, 1941. Born in Lexington, Mississippi, he was the son of Thomas Thompson Land, a prominent attorney who also ser ...

. He died Shreveport, La.

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* * 1815 births 1893 deaths 19th-century American judges 19th-century American politicians Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court Members of the Mississippi Legislature People from Rutherford County, Tennessee People from Shreveport, Louisiana People of Louisiana in the American Civil War University of Virginia alumni {{Louisiana-state-judge-stub