Retired U.S. Judge Barksdale Dies In Lynchburg At Age 80
LYNCHBURG (AP)—Alfred Dickinson Barksdale, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 to the U.S. District Court for Western Virginia, is dead at 80.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Spring Hill Cemetery.
Barksdale died Wednesday night after an illness of several months.
A judge in the 6th Virginia Judicial Circuit at the time he was appointed by Roosevelt, Barksdale served on the federal bench until 1957.
In 1944, he ruled against John L. Lewis' CIO United Mine Workers in a suit seeking to force the Jewel Ridge Corp. to pay miners portal-to-portal pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond reversed Barksdale's decision which had held up the payment of $18 million in retroactive travel time pay to soft coal miners.
Two years before the miners' suit, Barksdale presided in the New York trial of 24 former German-American Bund leaders and sentenced them to prison on charges they advised their followers to evade the draft.
During World War I, Barksdale served as a captain with the 116th Infantry in France and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
He was a member and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church and a member of the Kiwanis Club, Boonsboro Country Club, James River Club and American Bar Association.
Barksdale is survived by his widow, Mrs. Estill Winfree Barksdale; two daughters, Mrs. Allen H. Loyd of Union, S.C., and Mrs. Robert H. Garbee of Lynchburg; a stepson, William C. Phillips Jr. of Hampton, and seven grandchildren.
Obituary published in The Danville Register (Danville, Virginia) on August 18, 1972
Contributor: CJohnston (49877364)
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United States District Court judge; son of William Randolph Barksdale and Hallie Bailey Craddock Barksdale.
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Alfred D. Barksdale, Virginia Military Institute Class of 1911, A member of Company L, First Virginia Infantry, National Guard, Barksdale was called to active duty during the World War I.
LYNCHBURG (AP)—Alfred Dickinson Barksdale, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 to the U.S. District Court for Western Virginia, is dead at 80.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Spring Hill Cemetery.
Barksdale died Wednesday night after an illness of several months.
A judge in the 6th Virginia Judicial Circuit at the time he was appointed by Roosevelt, Barksdale served on the federal bench until 1957.
In 1944, he ruled against John L. Lewis' CIO United Mine Workers in a suit seeking to force the Jewel Ridge Corp. to pay miners portal-to-portal pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond reversed Barksdale's decision which had held up the payment of $18 million in retroactive travel time pay to soft coal miners.
Two years before the miners' suit, Barksdale presided in the New York trial of 24 former German-American Bund leaders and sentenced them to prison on charges they advised their followers to evade the draft.
During World War I, Barksdale served as a captain with the 116th Infantry in France and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
He was a member and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church and a member of the Kiwanis Club, Boonsboro Country Club, James River Club and American Bar Association.
Barksdale is survived by his widow, Mrs. Estill Winfree Barksdale; two daughters, Mrs. Allen H. Loyd of Union, S.C., and Mrs. Robert H. Garbee of Lynchburg; a stepson, William C. Phillips Jr. of Hampton, and seven grandchildren.
Obituary published in The Danville Register (Danville, Virginia) on August 18, 1972
Contributor: CJohnston (49877364)
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United States District Court judge; son of William Randolph Barksdale and Hallie Bailey Craddock Barksdale.
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Alfred D. Barksdale, Virginia Military Institute Class of 1911, A member of Company L, First Virginia Infantry, National Guard, Barksdale was called to active duty during the World War I.
Retired U.S. Judge Barksdale Dies In Lynchburg At Age 80
LYNCHBURG (AP)—Alfred Dickinson Barksdale, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 to the U.S. District Court for Western Virginia, is dead at 80.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Spring Hill Cemetery.
Barksdale died Wednesday night after an illness of several months.
A judge in the 6th Virginia Judicial Circuit at the time he was appointed by Roosevelt, Barksdale served on the federal bench until 1957.
In 1944, he ruled against John L. Lewis' CIO United Mine Workers in a suit seeking to force the Jewel Ridge Corp. to pay miners portal-to-portal pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond reversed Barksdale's decision which had held up the payment of $18 million in retroactive travel time pay to soft coal miners.
Two years before the miners' suit, Barksdale presided in the New York trial of 24 former German-American Bund leaders and sentenced them to prison on charges they advised their followers to evade the draft.
During World War I, Barksdale served as a captain with the 116th Infantry in France and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
He was a member and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church and a member of the Kiwanis Club, Boonsboro Country Club, James River Club and American Bar Association.
Barksdale is survived by his widow, Mrs. Estill Winfree Barksdale; two daughters, Mrs. Allen H. Loyd of Union, S.C., and Mrs. Robert H. Garbee of Lynchburg; a stepson, William C. Phillips Jr. of Hampton, and seven grandchildren.
Obituary published in The Danville Register (Danville, Virginia) on August 18, 1972
Contributor: CJohnston (49877364)
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United States District Court judge; son of William Randolph Barksdale and Hallie Bailey Craddock Barksdale.
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Alfred D. Barksdale, Virginia Military Institute Class of 1911, A member of Company L, First Virginia Infantry, National Guard, Barksdale was called to active duty during the World War I.
LYNCHBURG (AP)—Alfred Dickinson Barksdale, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 to the U.S. District Court for Western Virginia, is dead at 80.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Spring Hill Cemetery.
Barksdale died Wednesday night after an illness of several months.
A judge in the 6th Virginia Judicial Circuit at the time he was appointed by Roosevelt, Barksdale served on the federal bench until 1957.
In 1944, he ruled against John L. Lewis' CIO United Mine Workers in a suit seeking to force the Jewel Ridge Corp. to pay miners portal-to-portal pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond reversed Barksdale's decision which had held up the payment of $18 million in retroactive travel time pay to soft coal miners.
Two years before the miners' suit, Barksdale presided in the New York trial of 24 former German-American Bund leaders and sentenced them to prison on charges they advised their followers to evade the draft.
During World War I, Barksdale served as a captain with the 116th Infantry in France and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
He was a member and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church and a member of the Kiwanis Club, Boonsboro Country Club, James River Club and American Bar Association.
Barksdale is survived by his widow, Mrs. Estill Winfree Barksdale; two daughters, Mrs. Allen H. Loyd of Union, S.C., and Mrs. Robert H. Garbee of Lynchburg; a stepson, William C. Phillips Jr. of Hampton, and seven grandchildren.
Obituary published in The Danville Register (Danville, Virginia) on August 18, 1972
Contributor: CJohnston (49877364)
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United States District Court judge; son of William Randolph Barksdale and Hallie Bailey Craddock Barksdale.
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Alfred D. Barksdale, Virginia Military Institute Class of 1911, A member of Company L, First Virginia Infantry, National Guard, Barksdale was called to active duty during the World War I.
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