Merrimon, Augustus

Born: 15 Sept 1830, Cherryfields Plantation,
Transylvania Co., NC

Died: 14 Nov 1892

Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC

Education: Norwood’s Male Academy

Read Law: John W. Woodfin

Admitted: 1852

House of Commons: 1860, 1861

United States Senate: 1873

Elected to Superior Court: 1866

Resigned: 1867

App’t to Supreme Court: 29 Sept 1883

Elected to Supreme Court: Nov 1886

App’t Chief Justice: 16 Nov 1889

Elected Chief Justice: Nov 1890

Died in office: 14 Nov 1892

Associate Justice: Thomas Ruffin, Jr.

Chief Justice: William N. H. Smith

Associate Justice: Walter Clark

Chief Justice: James E. Shepherd

939 Majority

28 Dissenting

8 Concurring

975 Total