Thomas Thompson Land

Thomas Thompson Land (December 17, 1815 – June 27, 1893) was an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from November 1, 1858, to April 3, 1865.^[1]

Biography

Born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with his parents Land moved first to Alabama, and then to Mississippi.^[2] He graduated from the University of Virginia, and was a member of the Mississippi Legislature in 1839. He moved to Shreveport, Louisiana 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,^[2] and John R. Land. He died Shreveport, La.

References

1. . Louisiana Supreme Court. Archived from the original on 2019-06-09. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
2. 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.

External links

•   Media related to Thomas Thompson Land at Wikimedia Commons
• Thomas Thompson Land at Find a Grave  

Legal offices
Preceded by Henry M. Spofford	Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court 1858–1865	Succeeded by Zenon Labauve, Jr.