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Claude A. Taylor

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Claude Ambrose Taylor
Chief Justice of South Carolina
In office
1961 – January 21, 1966
Preceded byTaylor Hudnall Stukes
Succeeded byJoseph Rodney Moss
Associate Justice of South Carolina
In office
January 1944 – 1961
Preceded byDavid Gordon Baker
Succeeded byJames Woodrow Lewis
Personal details
BornAugust 24, 1902
Gilbert, South Carolina
DiedJanuary 21, 1966 (1966-01-22) (aged 63)
SpouseMary Young Cooper
Alma materUniversity of South Carolina (LL.B., 1926)

Claude A. Taylor was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in 1902 in Gilbert, South Carolina. For ten years, he served ten years in the General Assembly of South Carolina including as its Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1935 to 1936. He was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1944 and became its chief justice in 1961. Taylor began the practice of opening sessions of the court with a prayer.[1] He died on January 21, 1966, and is buried at the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Spartanburg, South Carolina.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Memory Hold the Door". University of South Carolina. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  2. ^ "Claude Ambrose Taylor, Sr (1902-1966)". Find a Grave. Retrieved December 4, 2014.