Ruffin, Thomas

Born: 17 Nov 1787, Virginia

Died: 15 Jan 1870, Hillsborough, NC

Buried: St. Matthews Church, Hillsborough, NC

Education: Princeton

Read Law: David Robertson (Virginia),
Judge Archibald Murphey

Admitted: 1807

House of Commons: 1813, 1815, 1816

Speaker of the House: 1816

Elected to Superior Court: 1816, 1825

Elected to Supreme Court: Dec 1829

Named Chief Justice: 30 Dec 1833

Resigned: 10 Nov 1852

Elected Assoc. Justice: 1858 (2nd time)

Resigned: 1859

Associate Justice: John Toomer

Chief Justice: Leonard Henderson

Associate Justice: William Gaston

Chief Justice: Frederick Nash

1401 Majority

14 Dissenting

17 Concurring

1432 Total