Charles G. Garrison, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles G. Garrison

American judge

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1849

Date of Death: 22-Apr-1924

Profession: lawyer

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Charles G. Garrison

  • Charles Grant Garrison (August 3, 1849 – April 22, 1924) was a physician, lawyer, and judge from New Jersey. Garrsion was born in Swedesboro, New Jersey on August 3, 1849, the son of Rev.
  • Joseph Fithian Garrison (1823–1892) and Elizabeth Vanarsdale (Grant) Garrison (1829–1903).
  • His brother was Lindley Miller Garrison, who served as Secretary of State (1864–1932).
  • He married Anna Hoffman Miller on March 4, 1880.Garrison attended Edgehill School in Princeton and the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia.
  • He entered the University of Pennsylvania to study medicine and graduated in 1872.
  • He had a medical practice at Swedesboro for four years, after which he entered the law offices of Samuel H.
  • Grey in Camden.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1878, and established a partnership with Thomas French with whom he remained partners until 1888.In 1884, Garrison became Judge Advocate General of New Jersey.
  • Governor of New Jersey Robert Stockton Green nominated him as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in to succeed Justice Joel Parker.
  • He served as associate justice from 1888 to 1893, when he resigned.
  • He was renominated by Governor Werts and was confirmed in 1895.
  • Governors Murphy, Fort and Fielder each re-nominated him for seven year terms in 1902, 1909 and 1916, but retired for health reasons around 1920.Garrsion resided in Merchantville.
  • In 1893 he was elected as an honorary member of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati.
  • He died on April 22, 1924, and was interred at Colestown Cemetery in Cherry Hill.

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