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Memoir of John Howe Peyton

by J. Lewis Peyton

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Nominated for Judge Tucker’s Judgeship

There seems never to have been a time that people did not wish Mr. Peyton on the bench, and immediately after Judge Tucker’s resignation, they began to nominate him, through the papers, for the vacant judgeship. He quickly put a stop to it, however, by declaring his entire unwillingness to take the office, not that he did not consider it an honor, but because at his then age, he was not willing to enter upon its onerous duties. We regret that among the beautiful tributes paid to him at this time, in the Richmond papers, we have not been able to get any other than that which follows.

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