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{{Short description|American judge}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|image = File:Stafford Gorman Whittle family.jpg
|caption = Photograph of the Whittle family. Stafford Whittle is second to the left on the top row
|office = [[List of justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia|Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia]]
|appointer =
|term_start = March 1901
|term_end = December 31, 1919
|predecessor = [[Archer A. Phlegar]]
|successor = [[Edward W. Saunders]]
|birth_name = Stafford Gorman Whittle
|birth_date = {{birth date|1849|12|05}}
|birth_place = [[Mecklenburg County, Virginia|Mecklenburg County]], [[Virginia]], [[United States|U.S.]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1931|09|11|1849|12|05}}
|death_place = [[Martinsville, Virginia|Martinsville]], Virginia, U.S.
|religion =
|signature =
|alma_mater = [[Washington and Lee University]]<br>[[University of Virginia]]
|spouse =
}}
'''Stafford Gorman Whittle''' (December 5, 1849 – September 11, 1931) was born at the family home ''Woodstock'' in [[Mecklenburg County, Virginia]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=e1YDAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22stafford+gorman+whittle%22&pg=PA437 Men of Mark in Virginia, Vol. III, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Men of Mark Publishing Company, Washington, D.C., 1907]</ref> His early education was received in Norfolk but, when the [[American Civil War]] began, he continued his studies with a tutor at his father's home in Botetourt County. Later, he attended Chatham Male Institute in Pittsylvania County and entered [[Washington and Lee University|Washington College]] when he was eighteen. The following year, 1868, he studied law at the [[University of Virginia]]. In 1871, he was admitted to the bar and began practice in [[Martinsville, Virginia]]. Ten years later, February 1, 1881, he was appointed judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit. He served there until March 1882, when he was defeated by the [[Readjuster Party]]. In 1885, however, he was elected for the full term and served until he was elected to the [[Supreme Court of Virginia|Supreme Court of Appeals]] in 1901. He became president of the court in 1917 and continued so until 1919 when he resigned. Returning to Martinsville, where Whittle had a long association with Christ Episcopal Church,<ref>[http://christchurchmvl.org/content.cfm?pg=15 Christ Episcopal Church, Martinsville, Va.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829213236/http://christchurchmvl.org/content.cfm?pg=15 |date=2009-08-29 }}</ref> Stafford Gorman Whittle spent the remaining years with his family.
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==See also==
* [[Kennon C. Whittle]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/history/whittle_william.htm Captain William Conway Whittle, Confederate Navy, father of Stafford Gorman Whittle, victorianvilla.com]

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