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Stanard, Robert, son of William Stanard and Elizabeth Carter, his wife, daughter of Colonel Edward Carter, of
"Blenheim," Albemarle county, was born in Spottsylvania county, August 17, 1781. He attended William
and Mary College in 1798, studied law and began the practice. He met at first with little success, but encouraged
by his father, he persevered and became prominent at the Richmond bar about the time that John Wickham, William
Call and their contemporaries left the field of action. He was a member of the state convention of 1829-30, which
revised the constitution. He made a great impression in that assembly of able men. On the death of Judge Brackenbrough,
in 1839, Mr. Stanard was elected to succeed him on the bench of the Supreme Court of Appeals. His mind was lucid
and direct. He understood no quibbling and despised all sophistry. He died while writing an opinion in Richmond,
May 14, 1846.
FROM:
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Volume II
By: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D.
Lewis Historical Publishing Company
New York 1915
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