Horace H. Lurton

Horace H. Lurton (born February 26, 1844, Newport, Kentucky, U.S.—died July 12, 1914, Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1910–14). Lurton enlisted in the Confederate army at the outbreak of the war and was twice taken prisoner, but he was paroled by President Abraham Lincoln the second time upon his mother’s appeal, pleading illness. After the war he finished his studies and established a successful legal practice...