Posted on 08/03/2010 8:00:56 AM PDT by Michael Zak
Grand Old Partisan salutes Elbert Tuttle, confirmed by the Senate as a federal judge on this day in 1954... Scorning the Democrats' segregationist policies, Tuttle assumed a leadership position in the Georgia Republican Party in the 1940s... It was Judge Tuttle who ordered the University of Mississippi to admit its first African-American student, James Meredith.
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Footnote: In the 1960’s Kit Bond was one of his law clerks and then went on to high GOP office.
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