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Amos Lee Ponder Jr. (March 26, 1887 – October 19, 1959) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from January 4, 1937, to October 19, 1959.[1][2]
Born at Fort Jesup in Louisiana, Ponder attended Mt. Lebanon College and Tulane University, and graduated as president of his class at Louisiana State University in 1912. Ponder was a Louisiana district attorney until 1930, and then a district judge from 1930 to 1937, when he was elected to the state supreme court.[3] He was reelected in 1950.[4]
Ponder died at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans, following a bout with pneumonia.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Louisiana Supreme Court Justices, 1813-Present". Louisiana Supreme Court. Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ↑ "Amos L. Ponder, Jr., 1937 (Jan. 4)-1959 (Oct. 19)". Louisiana Supreme Court. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- ↑ Biographies of Judges of Louisiana. 1st Edition, 1956. Issued by the Louisiana District Judges Association.
- 1 2 "Associate Justice Amos Ponder Dies", The Greenwood Commonwealth (October 19, 1959), p. 8.
- ↑ "Justice Amos Ponder Succumbs To Illness", The Crowley Post-Signal (October 19, 1959), p. 1.
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