- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
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Part I Beginnings -
Chapter 1 Family -
Chapter 2 Formative Years -
Part II Pursuit of the Law -
Chapter 3 University of North Carolina School of Law -
Chapter 4 False Start -
Chapter 5 Sharp & Sharp -
Chapter 6 Politics and Public Life -
Part III Superior Court (1949–1962) -
Chapter 7 Appointment to Superior Court -
Chapter 8 Judge Sharp, Presiding -
Chapter 9 Ambition -
Chapter 10 Theory and Practice -
Chapter 11 The Road to He Supreme Court -
Part IV North Carolina Supreme Court (1962–1979) -
Chapter 12 Taking the Veil -
Chapter 13 Opinions -
Chapter 14 Federal Job Proposals -
Chapter 15 Out of Court -
Chapter 16 Chief Justice Election -
Chapter 17 Chief Justice -
Chapter 18 Equal Rights Amendment -
Chapter 19 Stepping off the Stage - Epilogue
- A Note on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Chief Justice Election
Chief Justice Election
- Chapter:
- (p.336) Chapter 16 Chief Justice Election
- Source:
- Without Precedent
- Author(s):
Anna R. Hayes
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
This chapter describes how a North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, for seventy-two years, was always appointed whenever a chief justice died or retired; in such cases, the next most senior justice was always appointed to succeed him. The appointment amounted to a lifetime position, for, under what was essentially a one-party system, an incumbent was unlikely to lose his seat or even be opposed when elections were held. This procedure reliably ensured a Democrat as chief justice, given the scarcity of Republican justices. There had not been a Republican on the court in decades. It was only in 1902 that a North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice would initially take office by way of election.
Keywords: North Carolina, Supreme Court, lifetime position, one-party system, Democrat, Republican justices
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
-
Part I Beginnings -
Chapter 1 Family -
Chapter 2 Formative Years -
Part II Pursuit of the Law -
Chapter 3 University of North Carolina School of Law -
Chapter 4 False Start -
Chapter 5 Sharp & Sharp -
Chapter 6 Politics and Public Life -
Part III Superior Court (1949–1962) -
Chapter 7 Appointment to Superior Court -
Chapter 8 Judge Sharp, Presiding -
Chapter 9 Ambition -
Chapter 10 Theory and Practice -
Chapter 11 The Road to He Supreme Court -
Part IV North Carolina Supreme Court (1962–1979) -
Chapter 12 Taking the Veil -
Chapter 13 Opinions -
Chapter 14 Federal Job Proposals -
Chapter 15 Out of Court -
Chapter 16 Chief Justice Election -
Chapter 17 Chief Justice -
Chapter 18 Equal Rights Amendment -
Chapter 19 Stepping off the Stage - Epilogue
- A Note on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
