Arthur S. Buchanan
Arthur Stillingfleet Buchanan (August 14, 1856 โ December 25, 1919) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1910 to 1918.
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admission to the bar that same year.[1] He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1885 and 1886, moving to Memphis, Tennessee in 1887.[1] On December 17, 1910, Governor Malcolm R. Patterson appointed Buchanan to fill a seat on the Tennessee Supreme Court vacated by the death of William Dwight Beard.[1][2] Buchanan was elected to the seat in his own right in 1912, running unopposed.[1][2] He resigned on January 1, 1918, due to ill health and a desire to return to private practice in Memphis.[1][2]
Following his resignation from the court, he represented clients including the Guaranty Bank & Trust Company, Mississippi Delta Planting Company, Empire Planting Company, and Delta Farms Company.[1] Buchanan and his wife "occupied a prominent place in society both in Nashville and Memphis".[1] Buchanan died in his home in Memphis at the age of 63.[1]
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