Richard C. L. Moncure
| Richard C. L. Moncure | |
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| Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia | |
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In office March 13, 1851 – August 24, 1882 |
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| Preceded by | Francis T. Brooke |
| Succeeded by | Lunsford L. Lewis |
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December 11, 1805 Stafford, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | August 24, 1882 (aged 76) Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Butler Washington Conway |
Richard Cassius Lee Moncure (December 11, 1805 – August 24, 1882) was a Virginia politician and jurist, serving for more than 25 years on what became the Virginia Supreme Court.
Born at the family estate "Clermont" in Stafford County, Virginia, in 1805 to one of the First Families of Virginia, Richard Cassius Lee Moncure was the great grandson of Rev. John Moncure, a Scottish Huguenot immigrant and longtime rector of Overwharton parish and friend of George Washington, George Mason and other founding fathers. His father and grandfather were both named John Moncure and active in the affairs of what was renamed Aquia Parish. His mother Alice Peachy Gaskins (1774-1860) bore ten children, of whom Richard Cassius Lee was the seventh child and fourth son. He received his early education in the local schools and read extensively. He married Mary Washington Conway (1807-1890) on December 29, 1825, and that year also bought Glencairne Farm, at which the couple lived the rest of their lives. They had thirteen children, eleven surviving to adulthood. At least three of their sons served as Confederate officers (John Conway Moncure, Thomas Gascoigne Moncure and Walter Peyton Moncure) the eldest of whom became Speaker of the Louisiana house and judge in Shreveport, Louisiana. His grandson Richard Henry Lee Chichester also became a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.
After his admission to the bar in 1825, Moncure practiced in Fredericksburg and surrounding counties. In 1849, he entered politics and won election to the legislature, which was then engaged in extensive revision of the state's legal code. He was appointed to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to replace Francis Taliaferro Brooke in 1851, but when the Virginia Constitution was changed that year, election to that court became required. Moncure was one of the five judges elected under that new Constitution, and one of three judges elected under the Constitution of 1864, becoming that Court's President in 1865.
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