Robert Riddick PRENTIS

Background

PRENTIS, Robert Riddick was born on May 24, 1855 in Albemarle Company, Virginia. Son of Robert Riddick and Margaret Ann (Whitehead) Prentis.

Education

University of Virginia., Bachelor of Laws, 1876; Coll, of Wm. and Mary, Doctor of Laws, 1925

Career

Practiced at Charlottesville, Virginia, 1876-1879, Norfolk, January-November 1879, Suffolk, 1879-1895. Mayor of Suffolk, 1883-1885. Judge of Virginia Circuit Court, Norfolk Circuit, 1895-1907 (resigned).

Chairman State Corporation Commission, 1907-1916 (resigned). Justice of Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, November 16, since 1916, chief justice, March 10, since 1925.

Religion

Episcopal Church.

Membership

Member Democratic State Committee, 1887-1892. Member Virginia Tax Commission, 1910. Member State Advisory Board on Taxation, 1916.

Member Virginia War History Commission, since 1919.

• Member, Democratic State Committee, 1887-1892. Presidential Elector, 1892. Member, Virginia Tax Commission, 1910, Virginia State Advisory Board of Taxation, 1916. President National. Association Railway Commissioners, 1915-1916. Chairman Comm, of Revision and Amendment of Virginia Const., 1927, Judicial Council in Virginia, since 1928. Member Virginia War History Commission, 1919. Member of Phi Beta Kappa. Knights of Pythias.; Sons of Revolution. American Bar Association. American Law Institute. Society of Colonial Wars. Clubs: Westmoreland. Com monwealth, University.

Connections

Spouse Mary Allen Darden, January 6, 1887, Suffolk, Virginia.

Father:

Robert Riddick Prentis

Mother:

Margaret Ann (Whitehead) Prentis

Spouse:

Mary Allen Darden