Background
Biggs, James Crawford was born on August 29, 1872 in Oxford, North Carolina, United States. Son of William and Elizabeth Arrington (Cooper) Biggs.
Biggs, James Crawford was born on August 29, 1872 in Oxford, North Carolina, United States. Son of William and Elizabeth Arrington (Cooper) Biggs.
Student Horner Military School, Oxford, 1883-1887. Bachelor of Philosophy, summa cum laude, U. North Carolina, 1893. Student of University North Carolina Law School, 1893, 94.
Admitted to North Carolina bar, 1894. Began practice at Oxford. Professor of law, University of North Carolina, 1898-1900, Trinity Law School, Durham, 1911-1912.
Adjutant North Carolina State Guards, 3d Regiment, 1894-1898.
Mayor of Oxford 2 terms, 1897, 98. Member North Carolina House of Representatives from Durham County, 1905.
Supreme Court reporter, 1905-1907. Judge Superior Court of North Carolina, 1907-1911.
Resigned, 1911, and resumed practice at Raleigh, North Carolina.
Special assistant to attorney general of the United States, 1917-1918, in charge oil litigation against the South.P. Railroad in California. Solicitor general of the United States, 1933-1935. Now practicing law in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Special assistant to attorney general in charge Northern Pacific Land Grant Case involving 2,800,000 acres, 1935-1938.
Chairman North Carolina Board of Elections, 1929-1932. Trustee U. North Carolina, Methodist Orphanage (Raleigh).
Member Executive Committee and counselor American Red Cross, 1933-1935. Member Federal Board of Hospitalization, 1933-1935.
Member American Bar Association (Vice-President representing 4th Federal Circuit, 1933-1934), North Carolina State Bar Association (president 1914-1915), American Law Institute, North Carolina Common for Improvement of the Laws, National Conference Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Wake County Bar Association (president 1930), Society of Mayflower Descendants, Sons of the American Revolution, Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Psi. Club: Carolina Country (Raleigh).
Married Margie Jordan, February 7, 1906.