Historical Sources
Thomas Ruffin, State v. Mann (1829), North Carolina State University Civil War NC web site, Civil War Era NC.
http://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/44.
http://plaza.ufl.edu/edale/Mann.htm
J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, 1787-1870, Volumes 1-4. State Library of North Carolina, Digital Collections.
http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/search/searchterm/thomas%20ruffin%20papers/field/title/mode/all/conn/and/
Historical Sources – part 2
Life and Character of the Honorable Thomas Ruffin, Late Chief Justice of North Carolina, William A Graham, October 21, 1870.
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Courts/Life_and_Character_of_Thomas_Ruffin_WA_Graham_1871.pdf
Huebner, Timothy S. Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890. University of Georgia Press, 1999.
http://muse.jhu.edu/book/11490
Thomas Ruffin and the Confederate States of America.
Michael C. Hardy, Looking for the Confederate War Blog, January 08, 2018.
http://michaelchardy.blogspot.com/2018/01/thomas-ruffin-and-confederate-states-of.html
NC Judicial Branch web site
Portrait Presentations (link to Ruffin profile/portrait no longer active)
http://www.nccourts.gov/courts/supreme-court/portrait-presentations
Portrait Chief Justice Portrait Timeline
http://www2.nccourts.org/timeline/cj_portrait_timeline.html
Supreme Court of North Carolina Portrait Collection, February 1, 2017.
http://www.nccourts.gov/news/tag/general-news/supreme-court-of-north-carolina-portrait-collection
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Dale Edwards/News of Orange, Jan 28, 2020
http://www.newsoforange.com/news/article_1ef7267c-423c-11ea-aefc-370f70c12ff2.html
Portrait of former N.C. Supreme Court Justice removed from Orange County Courthouse
(author unknown), Orange County web site, January 22, 2020
http://www.co.orange.nc.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=426
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Tammy Grubb, News and Observer, January 22, 2020
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article239544828.html
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http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/thomas-ruffin-portrait
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MARTHA WAGGONER, ASSOCIATED PRESS, JANUARY 18, 2020
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article239424908.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article239424908.html
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article238038574.html
(Muller is quoted in this article)
All Rise! North Carolina Museum of History Exhibit Celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Law and Justice: The Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1819–2019 opens November 15 through May 2020.
Press Release, NC Judicial Branch web site, November 5, 2019.
http://www.nccourts.gov/news/tag/press-release/all-rise-north-carolina-museum-of-history-exhibit-celebrates-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-supreme-court-of-north-carolina
Supreme Court Establishes Advisory Commission. The Supreme Court issued an administrative order establishing an advisory commission on portraits.
NC Judicial Branch web site, October 25, 2018.
http://www.nccourts.gov/news/tag/general-news/supreme-court-establishes-advisory-commission
http://www.nccourts.gov/assets/news-uploads/Order_Advisory_Commission_on_Portraits_2018-10-25.pdf?rn.dAcc3BNMNDAA9Vw_lcZh_Fo5WjET6
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JOSH SHAFFER, News and Observer, OCTOBER 25, 2018
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article220617020.html
His pro-slavery rhetoric was extreme. And his portrait dominates our top NC courtroom.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article220326985.html
Sally Greene, Southern Cultures, Vol. 17, No. 3: Memory, Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History (May 18, 2011). Southern Cultures, Vol. 17, No. 3, August 5, 2011/Fall 2011
http://www.southerncultures.org/article/judge-thomas-ruffin-and-the-shadows-of-southern-history/
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/447966
May 18, 2011
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1830716
Eric L. Muller, Judging Thomas Ruffin and the Hindsight Defense, 87 N.C. L. Rev. 757 (2009).
March 1, 2009.
http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4364&context=nclr
UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1186524. July 30, 2008.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1186524