John E. Carrigan (August 25, 1910 – February 21, 1984) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia from his appointment on July 13, 1971 to December 31, 1972.
[1] On July 13, 1971, Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. appointed Carrigan to a seat on the West Virginia Supreme Court vacated by the death of Chauncey Browning Sr.; Moore and Carrigan had grown up in the same town, and known each other since youth, as well as serving in the state senate together.
[2] Governor Moore then named Carrigan as his liaison to the 1973 state legislature.
[3] In 1976, Carrigan represented Moore in an unsuccessful lawsuit to allow Moore to run for a third consecutive term as governor, despite the existence of a two-term limit in the state constitution.
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