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William Blount Rodman (1817, Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina – 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. He was a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1868 to 1878.
/ref> He helped revise the state's legal code in 1854, along with B.F. Moore. In 1858, he married Camilla Croom, and they had eight children. He served as a Democratic elector for John C. Breckinridge inNCpedia biography of Rodman
/ref> His grandson, William B. Rodman, III, usually called William B. Rodman, Jr., was also a state Supreme Court justice. The portraits of both justices hang in the Supreme Court chambers.
Guide to the William Blount Rodman Papers''Genealogy of the Rodman Family 1620-1886''
by Charles Henry Jones (page 93) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodman, William 1817 births 1893 deaths North Carolina lawyers Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court 1860 United States presidential electors People from Washington, North Carolina University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni North Carolina Democrats North Carolina Republicans People of North Carolina in the American Civil War 19th-century American judges 19th-century American lawyers
William Blount Rodman (1817, Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina – 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. He was a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1868 to 1878.
Life
He was the son of William Wanton Rodman (d. ca. 1825, brother of John Rodman) and Polly Anne (Blount) Rodman. Rodman graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1836 and studied law under JudgeWilliam Gaston
William J. Gaston (September 19, 1778 – January 23, 1844) was a jurist and United States Representative from North Carolina. Gaston is the author of the official state song of North Carolina, "The Old North State". Gaston County, North Carolin ...
. He was admitted to the bar in 1838. He delivered an address to the Wake Forest literary societies in 1846.Alfred L. Brophy, "The Republics of Liberty and Letters: Progress, Union, and Constitutionalism in Graduation Addresses at the Antebellum University of North Carolina," ''North Carolina Law Review'' 89 (2011): 1879./ref> He helped revise the state's legal code in 1854, along with B.F. Moore. In 1858, he married Camilla Croom, and they had eight children. He served as a Democratic elector for John C. Breckinridge in
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January–March
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and as a Confederate elector for Jefferson Davis
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in 1861. During the American Civil War, he commanded Confederate troops and served as a military judge for the Army of Northern Virginia.
After the war he resumed the practice of law in Washington, North Carolina, and, though politically Independent, he supported the Republican Party
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. He took a leading role at the 1868 state constitutional convention, where he served as chairman of the judiciary committee and unsuccessfully argued that judges should not be elected by the people. Nevertheless, later that same year, Rodman was elected to the Supreme Court./ref> His grandson, William B. Rodman, III, usually called William B. Rodman, Jr., was also a state Supreme Court justice. The portraits of both justices hang in the Supreme Court chambers.
References
Guide to the William Blount Rodman Papers
by Charles Henry Jones (page 93) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodman, William 1817 births 1893 deaths North Carolina lawyers Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court 1860 United States presidential electors People from Washington, North Carolina University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni North Carolina Democrats North Carolina Republicans People of North Carolina in the American Civil War 19th-century American judges 19th-century American lawyers