Ruffin, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 1787, in King and Queen county, Va. He served in the North Carolina legislature in 1813-16, becoming speaker in the latter year; was judge of the supreme court in 1816-18, and elected again from 1825; and was chief justice of the state supreme court from 1829 till 1852, and again in 1856-58, after which he served as presiding judge of the county court. He died Jan. 15, 1870, in Hillsboro, N. C.