Waller Washington Graves

Waller Washington Graves (December 17, 1860 – June 17, 1928) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1906 to 1928.

[2] In April 1906, Governor Joseph W. Folk appointed Graves to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Justice William Champe Marshall.

[3] Graves won election to the seat later that year, and was reelected to a ten-year term in 1908.

[2] Following the death of Joseph Rucker Lamar in 1916, Graves was reported to be among the candidates being considered by President Woodrow Wilson to fill Lamar's seat on the Supreme Court of the United States,[4] though Wilson ultimately nominated Louis Brandeis.

[2] Graves died of pneumonia in his home in Jefferson City, Missouri, at the age of 67.