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Class Year
1917
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Roscoe Conklin Back, LL.B.
Jackson, Kentucky
Henry Clay Society; President (4); Democratic Club; Jilted Brethren (4).
"Self-confidence is a prerequisite to great undertakings." Back came to college blessed with this fundamental qualification for the study of the law. His efforts have always met with that degree of success which forecasts for him a place in the first rank of his profession.
-The Kentuckian, 1917
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Roscoe Conklin Back (June 20, 1895 - May 26, 1959) was born in Breathitt County, Kentucky to William Davis Back and Ester Turner. Back practiced law in Jackson, Kentucky. He served two terms as the County attorney and a term as the Circuit Court clerk. Back also served as bank examiner for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He married Maud Herald in 1919.
