[2][3] He began attending Princeton University, joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and received a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army in July 1918.
[1][2][3] Upon admission to the Virginia bar, Denny begun his legal career at the Richmond law firm of Wellford and Taylor.
James Cannon (actually for misusing church money to support Al Smith for President, for which Cannon was acquitted), and their 1937 pamphlet entitled An Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion Concerning Methodist Unification, unification occurred in 1939, forming the Methodist Church (USA).
[1] However, federal Judge Charles Sterling Hutcheson rejected Denny's attempt to disqualify all jurors who were members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In 1956, Denny met with Virginia governor Thomas B. Stanley and helped devise the Massive Resistance strategy opposing the Brown decisions, including what became known as the Stanley Plan which included not only public voucher support for segregation academies (private schools which only accepted white pupils), but also gave the governor power to close any school which integrated (whether voluntarily pursuant to decisions of a local school board or because of a court order).
Denny hoped to argue the case for segregation in March 1964, but died in January (so John Segar Gravatt handled the segregationist argument, which the Supreme Court not only rejected, but strongly rebuked in its May, 1964 opinion).
[3] Denny also served on the Boards of Directors of the Richmond Federal Savings and Loan Association, the Miller Manufacturing Company, and Mason-Hagan.