George A. Brayton (1803 – April 21, 1880) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1843 to 1874, serving as chief justice from 1868 to 1874.
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Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, Brayton graduated from Brown University in 1824, and studied law in the office of Albert C. Greene, afterwards Attorney-General of the State and United States Senator, and at the Litchfield Law School.[1] In 1832, and again in 1843, Brayton served in the Rhode Island General Assembly. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1842.[1]
In June 1843 Brayton was elected an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and on March 13, 1868, after nearly twenty-five years of service, became chief justice. Brayton resigned on May 28, 1874, after the longest term of judicial service in the history of the State.[1][2]
Brayton lived for a time at the historic Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Stephen O. Edwards, "The Supreme Court of Rhode Island", in Horace Williams Fuller, et al., eds., The Green Bag, Vol. 2. (1890), p. 539-540.
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for General James Mitchell Varnum House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-09-04.