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STAPLER or STAPLES, Waller Redd, jurist, born in Patrick Court-House, Patrick County, Virginia, 24 February, 1826. He was graduated at William and Mary in 1846, stud-led law, and was admitted to practice in 1848. He served in the legislature in 1853-'4, was presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1855 and 1860, and one of four commissioners to the Provisional congress that met in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861. Ha served in the Confederate congress for the subsequent three years, and took an active part in its deliberations. In 1870-'82 he was a judge of the supreme court of Virginia. He was one of the three revisers of the code of laws for the state in 1884-'6, elector on the Democratic presidential ticket in 1884, and is now (1888) counsel for the Richmond and Danville railroad. During his term on the bench he acquired a national reputation for the learning, soundness, and conservatism that characterized his opinions. He also takes high rank as a political speaker.
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