Excerpt from Calyx, 1904
He represented the counties of Patrick and Henry in the Virginia Senate from the year 1885 to 1889, and in 1896 was an elector on the National Demo cratic ticket, and during that campaign became famous throughout the State as an eloquent Speaker.
Immediately upon graduation he began the practice of law at his home, at Patrick C. H., in the year 1879, but soon after located permanently at Martins ville, in Henry county, where he continued the successful practice of his profession until the year 1890, when his superior talents and ever-widening influence as a lawyer, caused him to seek a wider field in the growing and prosperous cit-y of Roanoke, where he became. A member of the law firm of Scott Staples. He has displayed the best legal talent in his argument of various cases before the Supreme Court. Of this State, and the esteem in which he is held by the judges of the Su preme Court was manifested by their unanimous recommendation to the Board of Trustees of 7ashington and Lee University to fill a professorship of law in this institution. The Board also had before them the recommendations of the Special committee composed of Trustees attorney-general Anderson, Mr. Lucian H. Cooke, President Denny, and Professor. Burks, Dean of the Law School, who had been appointed a committee at a previous meeting Of the Board to recommend a professor. Mr. Staples had in addition the endorsement of most of our circuit judges, the bars of Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Southwest Virginia generally, also Of many Richmond lawyers.
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