Background
Liddon, Benjamin Sullivan was born on September 7, 1853 in Jackson Company, Florida, United States. Son of Benjamin G. and Susan E. (Sullivan) Liddon.
Liddon, Benjamin Sullivan was born on September 7, 1853 in Jackson Company, Florida, United States. Son of Benjamin G. and Susan E. (Sullivan) Liddon.
Educational public schools of Georgia and Florida, and for a time at Southern University, Greensboro, Alabama. Studied law under Judge Allen H. Bush.
Admitted to bar, 1875. Represented (by special appointment) State of Florida in prosecution of C. B. Collins, defaulting State treasurer, 1897, and in recent proceedings before United States Congress of Charles Swayne, United States district judge. Was for several years attorney for State Hassaram Rijhumal Commission, resigned, 1902.
Local counsel for Louisville & Nashville Railroad Director and counsel for 1st National Bank of Marianna, Florida Was superintendent public schools, Jackson Company, Florida, 1879-1880.
Mayor Marianna, Florida, 4 years in ’80s.
Chief justice, 1894, The American Association Foreign Justice, 1895-1897, Supreme Court, Florida. Resigned to resume practice, 1897. Chairman of Common for Revision of Statutes of Florida, July since 1903.
Member Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Married Virginia M. Harvey, April.