Charles Burleigh Graves

Charles Burleigh Graves (November 13, 1841 – March 25, 1912) was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from August 21, 1905, to January 9, 1911.

[3] He was a member of the Iola battalion of the Kansas artillery in the civil war, commanded by Capitan Ross, as part of the 9th Cavalry Regiment.

[4] In 1896, he stood for the republican nomination for the position of Chief Justice of the supreme court, currently filled by appointment by David Martin, but was unsuccessful and continued in private practice.

[8] At 10 a.m. on Monday August 21, 1905 Graves got a call telling him that he had been appointed by governor Edward W. Hoch to fill the supreme court position vacated by the death of justice Edwin Wilber Cunningham.

[3] In a speech before the Kansas Bar Association called "Shall Jury Trials be Abolished in the United States?

[9] He left the supreme court after losing the 1910 re-election bid where he stood along with Silas Wright Porter and Judson S. West for two positions.