Background
Figg, Robert McCormick was born on October 22, 1901 in Radford, Virginia, United States. Son of Robert McCormick and Helen Josephine (Cecil) Figg.
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Robert McCormick Figg
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts, College of Charleston, 1920; Doctor of Letters, College of Charleston, 1970; law student, Columbia University, 1920-1922; Doctor of Laws, University South Carolina., 1959.
Career
Practiced, in Charleston, 1922-1959; general counsel, South Carolina. State Ports Authority, 1942-1972; circuit solicitor, 9th Judicial Circuit of South Carolina., 1935-1947; special circuit judge, 1957, 75, 76; dean, Law School, University of Southern California, 1959-1970; senior counsel, Robinson, McFadden, Moore, Pope, Williams, Taylor & Brailsford, Columbia, from 1970. Director Home Federal Savings & Loan Association, Charleston.
Achievements
Membership
Member South Carolina. Reorganization Commission, from 1948, chairman, 1951-1955, 71-75. Elector Hall Fame for Great Americans, 1976.
Member South Carolina. House of Representatives, 1933-1935. First president, now honorary life chairman College of Charleston Foundation.
Trustee Saul Alexander Foundation, Columbia Museum Art. Fellow American College Trial Lawyers. Member American Society International Law, American Academy Political Science, American Law Institute (life), American Judicature Society, Institute Judicial Administration, World Association Lawyers, Inter-American Bar Association, Charleston County Bar Association (president 1953), American Bar Association (house of deals 1971-1972, committee fair trial-free press 1965-1969, committee special study legal education from 1974), South Carolina.
Bar Association, South Carolina. State Bar (president 1971), Order Coif, Blue Key (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa (honorary), Phi Delta Phi (honorary).
Connections
Married Sallie Alexander Tobias, May 10, 1927. Children: Robert McCormick, Emily Figg DallaMura, Jefferson Tobias.
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American