
Augustus Hill Garland Law Office - Little Rock, Arkansas
Posted by:
BruceS
N 34° 44.851 W 092° 15.903
15S E 567271 N 3845290
Quick Description: Plaque marking location of historic law office in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 6/19/2010 2:45:00 PM
Waymark Code: WM92TW
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Long Description:Text of marker:
At about this site stood the law office of
Augustus Hill Garland
Member of House and Senate of the Confederate Congress
He prepared and won the case of ex parte Garland in the U.S. Supreme Court, thus effecting the readmission of southern lawyers to that tribunal without taking the "Iron-Clad Oath."
The marker is on the front of the Museum of Discovery.
Leader in Constitutional Convention of 1874.
Governor of Arkansas
Attorney General of the United States
This Marker Placed
By
Camps of Greater Little Rock, Woodmen of the World
The marker is on the front of the Museum of Discovery building.