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Sources consulted for the biography of:Leon M. Bazile (1890–1967)
Published Biographies
- Philip Alexander Bruce, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, and Richard L. Morton, History of Virginia (1924), 4:133–134.
- Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass Jr., Virginia Democracy (1937), 2:392–393.
- John Edward Lane III, "Leon Maurice Bazile" in Legal Education in Virginia, 1779–1979, A Biographical Approach, ed. W. Hamilton Bryson (1982), 83–86.
Primary Sources
- Birth date in Birth Register, Hanover Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS), Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Marriage date in Register of Marriages, Richmond City, BVS.
- Death Certificate, Hanover Co., BVS.
- Leon M. Bazile Papers, including legal memorandum on school closing, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.
- First quotation in Washington Post, July 23, 1950.
- School bond ruling reported in Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 3, 1955, and in County School Board of Hanover County v. Samuel W. Shelton (1956), Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 198:226–230.
- Second quotation in Loving et ux. v. Virginia (1967), Cases Adjudicated in the Supreme Court of the United States 388:1–13.
Selected Publications
- Bazile, "Hanover County," Virginia and the Virginia County 6 (June 1952): 11–13, 58, 60.
- William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 5 (1948): 417–419.
Obituaries
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 19, 1967
- Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, March 20, 1967
- Richmond News Leader, March 20, 1967
- Ashland Herald Progress, March 23, 1967
- Memorial in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association (1967), 275–279.
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