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Anthony D. Sayre

Born 1/1/1858

Judicial Career

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    1/1/1909 – 1/1/1931

Biography

Anthony Dickinson Sayre was an American lawyer and politician who served as a state legislator in the Alabama House of Representatives (1890–1893), as the President of the Alabama State Senate (1896–1897), and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1909–1931). Influential in Alabama politics for nearly half a century, Sayre is widely regarded by historians as the legal architect who laid the foundation for the state's Jim Crow laws.

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