Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia's First Chief Justice

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia's First Chief Justice. By Paul DeForest Hicks. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2002. Pp. viii, 183. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2365-9.)

Paul DeForest Hicks has produced a scholarly, spare biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867), an important figure in Georgia jurisprudence who embodied many of the traits called to mind when Old South elites bestowed the reverential title "Judge" on one of their own. In Hicks's hands, Lumpkin emerges as a benevolent domestic paternalist who was learned at law, courtly, and pragmatically reformist. Yet ...

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