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2 unusual facts about United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia


Thomas B. Mason

Thomas Boyd Mason (January 12, 1919 – March 9, 2007) was an American United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia (1961–1969), and an actor.

Mason was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia by John F. Kennedy in 1961.


Armistead Mason Dobie

A dispute between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Virginia's senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd, Sr., resulted in the rejection of Roosevelt's recess appointment of Floyd H. Roberts to a newly created seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.

In 1938, he along with A.C. Buchanan were the choices of Virginia Senators Carter Glass and Harry Byrd, Sr., to a vacancy on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, to which Franklin D. Roosevelt named instead Floyd H. Roberts.


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Michael F. Urbanski

From 1981 until 1982, Urbanski served as a law clerk to Judge James Clinton Turk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.