George A. Brayton

Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice George A. Brayton, from The Green Bag (1890).

George A. Brayton (1803 - April 21, 1880) was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1843 to 1874, serving as Chief Justice from 1868 to 1874.

Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, Brayton graduated from Brown University in 1824, and studied law in the office of Albert C. Greene, afterwards Attorney-General of the State and United States Senator, and at the Litchfield Law School.[1] In 1832, and again in 1843, Brayton served in the Rhode Island General Assembly. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1842.[1]

In 1843 Brayton was elected an Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and in 1868, after nearly twenty-five years of service, became Chief Justice. Brayton resigned in 1874, after the longest term of judicial service in the history of the State.[1]

Brayton lived for a time at the historic Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stephen O. Edwards, "The Supreme Court of Rhode Island", in Horace Williams Fuller, et al., eds., The Green Bag, Vol. 2. (1890), p. 539-540.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for General James Mitchell Varnum House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-09-04.
Political offices
Preceded by
Newly constituted court		 Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
1843–1868		 Succeeded by
Walter S. Burgess
Preceded by
Charles S. Bradley		 Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
1868–1874		 Succeeded by
Thomas Durfee



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