death_date module birth_date birthname article_title name occupation
1959 yes north carolina -lrb- 1892 -rrb- southern championship -lrb- 1892 -rrb- north carolina tar heels law 6 0 169 1871 william augustus devin william a. devin
 william devin jurist
william a. devin

william augustus devin -lrb- 1871 -- 1959 -rrb- was an american jurist who served as an associate justice and chief justice of the north carolina supreme court .
a native of granville county , north carolina , devin , a democrat , earned his undergraduate degree at wake forest college and his law degree at the university of north carolina at chapel hill .
devin served as mayor of oxford , north carolina from 1903 until 1909 and was a captain in the north carolina national guard .
he was elected to one term -lrb- 1911 -- 1913 -rrb- in the north carolina house of representatives from granville .
he also served as a state superior court judge -lrb- 1914 -- 1935 -rrb- before being appointed by the governor to the state supreme court in 1935 .
he retired as chief justice in early 1954 .
