Waller Redd Staples

Waller Redd Staples (born February 24, 1826 in Patrick County , Virginia , † August 20, 1897 in Christiansburg , Montgomery County , Virginia) was a Confederate Congressman during the American Civil War .

Staples attended the University of North Carolina for two years and then the College of William & Mary , where he graduated in 1845. He then moved to Montgomery County, Virginia, where he opened a legal practice.

He chose a political career when he was a member of the Virginia General Assembly from 1853 to 1854 . After the secession of Virginia in 1861, he was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress and the 1st and 2nd Confederate Congresses. After the end of the war, he returned to his work in his legal practice.

In February 1870 he was elected judge on the Supreme Court of Appeals , where he remained until 1882. At that time, the Readjuster Party controlled the state and no judge from the Court of Appeals was re-elected. Then Staples was a judge in 1884 on the committee for the revision of civil and criminal law in Virginia. He later served as President of Virginia's Bar Association from 1893 to 1894. He was also in 1887 together with Edward C. Burks and John W. Riely, both also judges on the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, which revised the Code of Virginia .

Web links

• The Political Graveyard (Engl.)

• Waller Redd Staples in the database of Find a Grave (English)