{"id":2134,"date":"2014-04-19T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2014-04-19T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:38:27","slug":"harold-brown-singleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2014\/04\/19\/harold-brown-singleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Harold Brown Singleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I can never have a birthday without thinking of my grandfather.\u00a0 On April 19, 1971 I was a birthday present to then 65 year old Honorable Judge Harold B. Singleton of Amherst VA, representative to the Virginia House of Commons.\u00a0 I was first grandchild to a Charter Member of the National Honor Society when he graduated from EC Glass High School in 1925.\u00a0 He attended Lynchburg College and during that time found a matchbook in a restaurant that contained an advertisement for law books on the cover.\u00a0 He ordered them and became the youngest person to ever pass the Virginia state bar exam on his first attempt.\u00a0 In 1938 he opened a law firm with Lucien Shrader and in 1941 he was elected to the Virginia House of Commons for 14 years.\u00a0 He authored and sponsored the legislation that made it legal to buy soft drinks in Virginia and the 1950 revisions to the state code regarding the retirement plan for Virginia state employees.<\/p>\n

In 1964 he was appointed Judge of the Amherst District Court.\u00a0 Later he became the Chief Judge of the 24th District Juvenile and Domestic relations court.\u00a0 In 1957 and 1958 he was elected National President of the Lynchburg College Alumni Association and National President of the Ruritan National Civics organization in 1963.\u00a0 A lifetime of great achievements and I did not learn the full extent of them until after his passing in 1994, my last year of college.\u00a0 Although he took me to coat and tie lunches to shake hands with US Congressmen, growing up he was just Pop.\u00a0 Although I saw him in the courtroom on a couple of occasions, something I believe none of his other grandchildren ever did, I spent most of my time with him in his extensive garden at Green Lawn, accompanied by our favorite dog Blanc.\u00a0\u00a0 I will return to the house on the road I knew as Rural Route 40 very soon, although it is now called Father Judge Road in his honor, to visit my 94 year old grandmother who still resides in the only home I’ve ever known my grandparents to live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can never have a birthday without thinking of my grandfather.\u00a0 On April 19, 1971 I was a birthday present to then 65 year old Honorable Judge Harold B. Singleton of Amherst VA, representative to the Virginia House of Commons.\u00a0 I was first grandchild to a Charter Member of the National Honor Society when he … Continue reading Judge Harold Brown Singleton<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}