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George M. Cochran was born on 20 April, 1912 in Staunton, Virginia, U.S., is an American judge. Discover George M. Cochran's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 99 years old?

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Age 99 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 20 April 1912
Birthday 20 April
Birthplace Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
Date of death 2011
Died Place Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1912

George Moffett Cochran IV (April 20, 1912 – January 22, 2011) was a Virginia lawyer, banker and legislator who later served as a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.

Cochran served part-time representing Staunton, Virginia, in the Virginia General Assembly for nearly two decades, first as a delegate, then briefly as state senator.

His opposition to the Byrd Organization's policy of Massive Resistance helped integrate Virginia's schools.

Born in Staunton, George was the first born child of Peyton Cochran and his wife Susie Baldwin Robertson, both of prominent local families.

On his mother's side, Cochran was descended from Alexander H.H. Stuart, a U.S. Congressman before the American Civil War who also helped organize the U.S. Department of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore.

A.H.H. Stuart later helped negotiate the end of restrictions upon Confederate sympathizers as Reconstruction ended.

Cochran's paternal grandfather of the same name served in the Confederate army as a quartermaster and other administrative positions, disappointed that poor eyesight disqualified him from the artillery position he wanted.

Young George Cochran had a sister four years his junior and a brother a decade younger than himself, although he outlived them both.

He attended Staunton's schools including Robert E. Lee High school, then Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.

After graduating, Cochran began studying law at the University of Virginia, as had his father and grandfather.

At the University of Virginia, he was a member of the Z Society and Beta Theta Pi; he resided on The Lawn.

1934

Cochran received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934 and a LL.B. degree in 1936 from the University of Virginia Law School.

He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Raven Society as an alumnus.

1936

He returned to Staunton in 1936, became a member of the Virginia bar and began practicing law with his father.

1942

Six years later, World War II erupted, and Cochran served in the U.S. Navy, mostly in the Pacific from 1942 until 1946, as he refused desk and legal jobs and sought those involving amphibious service.

1946

In 1946, Cochran married Marion Lee Stuart.

After graduation Cochran initially practiced law in Baltimore for two years but struggled financially.

1947

From 1947 to 1969, Cochran also was a trustee of Staunton's Planter's Bank and Trust Company, and was the bank's president during the last six of those years.

Cochran won election unopposed to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1947, representing Augusta and Highland counties and the cities of Staunton and Waynesboro.

1948

He served from 1948 to 1965 (that becoming the 10th district after the post-1960 census redistricting).

1958

He had already promised his first appointment to that court to former Attorney General (1958-62) and Governor (1962-66) Albertis S. Harrison, Jr (who had unsuccessfully defended the Massive Resistance cases in court).

From the list of attorneys suggested by the Virginia Bar Association, Godwin nominated Cochran to fill the other vacant seat.

1959

After January 19, 1959, when both a three-judge federal panel and the Virginia Supreme Court declared the Stanley Plan of various laws adopted in a special 1956 legislative session unconstitutional, Governor J. Lindsay Almond and Lieutenant Governor Gi Stephens broke with the Byrd Organization's decision to continue Massive Resistance.

They narrowly secured legislative approval of a commission chaired by Senator Perrow to craft the Commonwealth's response to "Brown II."

Cochran was among the Perrow Commission's members and later described its work in dismantling Massive Resistance for the Augusta Historical Society.

Historian Katharine Brown considered Cochran "one of just a small handful of people that had the courage to buck the dominant opinion in Virginia of massive resistance.... That took courage and was a remarkable thing that he did."

Cochran later took pride in helping to convince Governor Mills E. Godwin, another leader of Massive Resistance, to support creation of Virginia's community college system.

1960

After the war, University of Virginia trustee Emily Pancake Smith urged Cochran to run for the legislature, and boards of visitors at Virginia Tech (1960-1968) and Mary Baldwin College (1967-1981) and as a trustee of the Virginia Historical Society.

1963

Cochran ran in what had become the 19th District (comprising Augusta, Rockbridge and Highland counties and the cities of Staunton, Waynesboro, Buena Vista and Lexington) and would soon become the 21st district). Augusta, Bath and Highland counties and the cities of Staunton and Waynesboro had been in the 21st district in 1963 and 22nd district in 1961, and represented by longtime Byrd lieutenant Curry Carter (who had narrowly defeated Republican Winston Wine in 1961). Now, Democrat Cochran won overwhelmingly, with over 94% of the vote against Republican Winston Wine, who won just 5%.

Cochran served only two years in the Virginia Senate, because after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Davis v. Mann, another new redistricting plan took effect and Republican H. Dunlop Dawbarn of Waynesboro defeated him in the next election, perhaps as a result of sympathy for losing his wife or outrage over Cochran's distancing himself from the Byrd Organization.

In the General Assembly, Cochran had been one of the "Young Turks," World War II veterans who disagreed with the Byrd Organization on many education and civil rights issues, although he was not as liberal as Armistead Boothe of Alexandria.

They introduced measures to abolish Jim Crow laws and the poll tax, which didn't pass until much later; and the Organization retaliated by limiting their committee assignments.

Like Boothe, Mosby Perrow Jr.. and Tayloe Murphy, Cochran advocated keeping schools open during Virginia's "Massive Resistance," whereby U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. vowed to prevent public school desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decisions.

1964

In 1964, the former family law firm became Cochran, Lotz and Black.

1965

The Senate of Virginia had major redistricting in 1965.

1966

President of the Virginia Bar Association in 1966, Cochran also served as a member of the Constitutional Revision Commission of Virginia in 1968-69.

He was also a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and of the American College of Probate Law, as well as charter fellow of the Virginia Bar Foundation.

1969

Fellow legislators approved his nomination in August 1969 and also elected him to a full 12-year term in 1973.

1986

From 1986 until his death, Cochran also chaired the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia in Staunton.

Since both Chief Justice John W. Eggleston and Justice Archibald C. Buchanan announced their retirements from the Supreme Court of Appeals on the same day, Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr. had two slots to fill.