Thomas Thompson Land

Thomas T. Land
Thomas T. Land
Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
	In office; November 1, 1858 – April 1, 1865
Preceded by	Henry M. Spofford
Succeeded by	Zenon Labauve, Jr.
Personal details
Born	December 17, 1815; Rutherford County, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	June 27, 1893 (aged 77); Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.

Thomas Thompson Land (December 17, 1815 – June 27, 1893) was an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from November 1, 1858, to April 3, 1865.^[1]

Biography

Born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with his parents Land moved first to Alabama, and then to Mississippi.^[2] He graduated from the University of Virginia, and was a member of the Mississippi Legislature in 1839. He moved to Shreveport, Louisiana in 1846, and was a judge of the District Court from 1854 to 1858, when he became a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He served as a member of the Convention of 1879, where he was chairman of the judiciary committee. He was the father of Justices Alfred D. Land,^[2] and John R. Land. He died in Shreveport, Louisiana.

References

^ "Louisiana Supreme Court - Bicentennial Years". www.lasc.org. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., The Louisiana Historical Quarterly (1922), p. 119.