1. Hugh Manson Dorsey was an American lawyer from Georgia.
18 Facts About Hugh Dorsey
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Hugh Dorsey was the prosecuting attorney in the Leo Frank prosecution of 1913, that subsequently led to a lynching after Frank's death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.
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Hugh Dorsey was a politician, a member of the Democratic Party, who was twice elected as the Governor of Georgia and jurist who served for more than a decade as a superior court judge in Atlanta.
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Hugh Manson Dorsey was born in Fayetteville, Georgia, on July 10,1871, to Sarah Matilda and Rufus T Dorsey.
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Hugh Dorsey's father was a judge and after moving to Atlanta formed the firm Wright and Dorsey with Judge William Wright.
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Hugh Dorsey attended school for a year in Hartwell, Georgia, before returning to Atlanta.
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Hugh Dorsey married Adair Wilkinson of Valdosta, Georgia, on June 29,1911.
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Hugh Dorsey joined his father's law firm in Atlanta in 1895.
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Hugh Dorsey was made a partner along with Arthur Heyman and the firm became Dorsey, Brewster, Howell and Heyman.
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Hugh Dorsey was a member of the Democratic Party, as were most established Whites in the South after Reconstruction.
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In 1913, Hugh Dorsey was prosecuting attorney at the trial of Leo Frank, who was indicted for the murder of young factory worker Mary Phagan.
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Hugh Dorsey resigned as solicitor general on August 1,1916.
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Hugh Dorsey was elected for two consecutive two-year terms as the Governor of Georgia from 1917 to 1921.
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Hugh Dorsey's speech recited a list of abuses by Georgia whites against African Americans: lynchings, banishments, slavery-like peonage, and physical cruelty.
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Hugh Dorsey served as a superior court judge in Atlanta from 1935 to March 4,1948.
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Hugh Dorsey died on June 11,1948 in a hospital in Atlanta and was buried at the city's Westview Cemetery.
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Hugh Dorsey's grandson, Jaz Dorsey, was a composer, lyricist and playwright.
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Hugh Dorsey is seen in the 1964 fiction Profiles in Courage and 1988 TV-miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan, where Dorsey was portrayed by the actor Richard Jordan, and in the Broadway musical Parade, where he was portrayed in the original cast by Herndon Lackey.