Draft:Thomas C. McClellan

Thomas Cowan McClellan (January 11, 1878 – July 28, 1929) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1906 to 1923.

Early life, education, and career
Born in Athens, Alabama, to Robert A. and Aurora Prior McClellan, his uncle Thomas N McClellan served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1898 to 1906. McClellan "received his early education in Athens and later attended the University of Alabama and Cumberland University, in Lebanon, Tennessee". "He began the practice of law in Athens in 1893".

"Mayor of his home city, member of the Supreme Court of Alabama, holding high position in the American Bar Association, and attorney for the Alabama Docks Commission, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and other corporations".

"McClellan served as mayor of Athens for 10 years and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama from 1899 to 1923".

Judicial service and later life
"Chief Justice Thomas N. McClellan died in 1906, and Samuel D. Weakley was appointed to succeed him until the next general election, at which... Thomas C. McClellan was elected as an Associate Justice".

"He was nominated by the Democratic Party in 1906 and elected for a full term".

"In 1923 Justice Thomas C. McClellan resigned, to be succeeded by Virgil Bouldin". McClellan then returned to the private practice of law, opening an office in Birmingham.

Personal life and death
McClellan was married first to Emily Horton, who died young, and then in 1902 to Susan Ruth Phillips, with whom he had one daughter.

He died at his home in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 56, following an operation in January of that year, and "after a six months fight to regain his health".