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Class Year
1911
Description
Thomas Harris Burruss, LL.B. '11, LL.M. '12
"Burr"
Valdosta, Georgia
Pi Kappa Alpha Varsity Baseball Team, President Patterson Literary Society, Vice-President Henry Clay Law Society.
"Burr" is one smooth citizen. His extraordinary influence over the good Judge (something smooth as a citizen himself) is the talk of the Law Department. No one can explain it, unless it be his remarkably regular attendance and close application to his studies. He is also a particular friend of C. Kerr and many are the friendly chats they have during the class in Corporation. He came from Georgia. Need we comment on that fact?
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look he thinks too much such men are dangerous."
-The Kentuckian, 1911
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Thomas Harris Burruss, Jr. (March 3, 1889 - February 26, 1965) was born in Florence County, South Carolina to Thomas Harris Burruss Sr. and Minnie Perry. Burruss attended Mississippi State College where he received a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He then worked as an instructor in mechanical drawing at the Clemson College Engineering Department. Burruss received both an LL.B. and an LL.M. from the University of Kentucky. He submitted a thesis titled 'The Growth and Development of Sociology' for his Master of Laws degree. He practiced law in Madison, Georgia after receiving his LL.M. in 1912 and served two terms in the Georgia General Assembly beginning in 1916. Burruss then practiced law in Lakeland, Florida before moving his practice to Corpus Christi, Texas. Burruss married twice--his wives were May Thomason (m. 1917, d. 1927) and Mary Preston Alexander (m. 1928).
