
Born: March 27, 1907 in Nansemond County, Virginia
Died: August 17, 1954 in Suffolk, Virginia
RURITAN INVOLVEMENT
Ruritan National
National President – 1937
National Vice President – 1936
Board of Directors – 1938-1943
Holland Club
- At the age of 30, he was the youngest President in the history of Ruritan
PROFESSIONAL
- Attorney: 1929-1954
- Commonwealth Attorney for Nansemond County: 1947-1954
- Mayor of Holland: He was in his 2nd term at the time of his passing
- Director of the Farmer Bank of Nansemond
- Secretary of the Virginia-Carolina Peanut Corporation
- Member of the Nansemond County and Virginia State Bar Associations
MILITARY
U.S. Navy
- Volunteered for service IN 1940 and became a Lieutenant on an LST in the Pacific Theater during W.W. II and served for 3 Years.
EDUCATION
- College of William and Mary
- University of Virginia Law School
[Source: The Ruritan Saga – A History of the First Fifty Years of Ruritan by Robert H. Bailey, Russell Burgess & H.M. (Kit) Shaver, Jr. © 1983; The Tidewater News” (Franklin, VA), Aug. 19, 1954; “The Smithfield (VA) Times,” Vol. 38, No. 11, Aug. 26, 1954, p. 1, col. 5]