Richard Ervin

Richard Ervin

Infobox Officeholder
name=Richard Ervin



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office2= Attorney General of Florida
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term_start2 = 1949
term_end2 = 1964
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birth_date= January 26, 1905
birth_place= Carrabelle, Florida
death_date= August 24, 2004
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profession= Lawyer
party= Democrat
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Richard W. Ervin, Jr. (January 26, 1905 in Carrabelle, Florida - August 24, 2004 in Tallahassee, Florida) was the Florida Attorney General from 1949 to 1964, and he also served as chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1969 to 1971. He is credited with guiding the state from segregation (based on the brief he wrote to the United States Supreme Court's request from each state's Attorney General on how to rule regarding "Brown v. Board of Education"), and desegregating its schools. His son, Richard W. Ervin III, was a judge of the First District Court of Appeal for 30 years and retired at the end of 2006.

Ervin was a graduate of the University of Florida where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and earned his law degree at the University of Florida College of Law. Following his retirement, he was of counsel to the law firm founded by his brother Robert Ervin, in Tallahassee. He received an honorary degree from Florida State University.


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