Draft:Theodore Brace

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{{Short description|American judge (1835–1921)}}

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Theodore Brace (June 10, 1835 – May 27, 1921) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1887 to 1907.

{{quote|Brace is a native of Alleghany County, Maryland, and was born June 10, 1835. He became a resident of Missouri in 1856. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Confederate cavalry service, and by repeated promotions became a colonel. When the bar of the Drake Test Oath was removed, he resumed the practice of his profession. In 1874 he became a member of the State Senate, and gained a wide reputation as an orator of rare grace and eloquence. In 1879 he became probate judge of Monroe County; in 1881, a judge of the circuit court; and in 1887, a member of the Supreme Court..L. C. Krauthoff, The Supreme Court of Missouri, in Horace Williams Fuller, ed., The Green Bag (1891), Vol. 3, p. 190.}}

{{Cite web|url=https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=299|title=Former Judges of the Supreme Court|website=www.courts.mo.gov}}

{{cite web|url=https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=180216 |title=Theodore Brace|work=Missouri Courts|access-date=June 24, 2023}}