Background
Lemley, Harry Jacob was born on August 6, 1883 in Upperville, Virginia, United States. Son of Joseph Henry and Mary (Kendall) Lemley.
Lemley, Harry Jacob was born on August 6, 1883 in Upperville, Virginia, United States. Son of Joseph Henry and Mary (Kendall) Lemley.
Student Randolph Macon Academy, Fort Royal, Virginia, 1899-1901, University of Virginia, 1901-1903. Bachelor of Laws, Washington and Lee University, 1910. Doctor of Laws, University Arkansas.
Born in Upperville, Virginia, Lemley received an Bachelor of Laws in 1910 from Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia. He was in private practice in Hope from 1912 to 1939. On April 27, 1939, Lemley was nominated by United States. President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt to a new joint seat on the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the Western District of Arkansas created by 52 Statistics
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He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 8, 1939, and received his commission on May 11, 1939. He served as chief judge from 1948 to 1958. Lemley was originally assigned to the 1957 Little Rock Integration Crisis.
He granted the school board a two-year delay in the implementation of the desegregation order, but the decision was reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Lemley then retired from full-time judicial duties, and the desegregation case passed to Ronald North. Davies, a North Dakota jurist sent to Little Rock by the Eighth Circuit. Lemley assumed senior status on September 5, 1958, and served in that capacity until his death in 1965.
From 1931 to 1933, he was a member of the Arkansas State Highway Audit Commission.
Married Caroline McRae, December 26, 1912. Children: Harry J. (United States Army), Kenneth McRae (United States Army).