Claude A. Taylor

Claude Ambrose Taylor
Chief Justice of South Carolina
In office 1961 – January 21, 1966
Preceded by	Taylor Hudnall Stukes
Succeeded by	Joseph Rodney Moss
Associate Justice of South Carolina
In office January 1944 – 1961
Preceded by	David Gordon Baker
Succeeded by	James Woodrow Lewis
Personal details
Born	1902 Gilbert, South Carolina
Died	January 21, 1966
Spouse(s)	Mary Young Cooper
Alma mater	University of South Carolina (LL.B., 1926)

Claude A. Taylor was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in 1902 in Gilbert, South Carolina. For ten years, he served ten years in the General Assembly of South Carolina including as its Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1935 to 1936. He was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1944 and became its chief justice in 1961. Taylor began the practice of opening sessions of the court with a prayer.^[1] He died on January 21, 1966, and is buried at the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Spartanburg, South Carolina.^[2]

References

1. "Memory Hold the Door". University of South Carolina. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
2. "Claude Ambrose Taylor, Sr (1902-1966)". Find a Grave. Retrieved December 4, 2014.