James Grandville McClure 
M, (28 December 1913 - 19 January 2001)
James Grandville McClure was born on 28 December 1913. He was the son of Walter McClure and Bessie Reppetto. James Grandville McClure married, at age 33, Jessie Edgington Whitaker, age 27, daughter of George Parks Whitaker and Marie Stifel, on Tuesday, 8 July 1947 at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.1 James Grandville McClure died on 19 January 2001 at age 87 years and 22 days.
James served in the navy during WWII, in the Pacific.1 He was U.S. Circuit Court Judge in 1980. James Granville Mcclure '35
Published in May 14, 2003, of the Princeton Alumni Weekly Issue
Jim died Jan 19, 2001, in Wheeling, W.Va. He prepared for Princeton at Mercersburg Academy, and at Princeton majored in politics and was a member of Cannon Club. He got his LLB at West Virginia's Law School in Morgantown in 1938. That same fall he was back in Wheeling, in private law practice.
Looking back on his two years in the Naval Reserve during WWII, starting in 1943, Jim admitted it broadened his resume. After indoctrination at Norfolk, Va., he received orders to report to Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, as an intelligence officer attached to a group of PT boats stationed there. Jim next investigated and wrote the official Navy report on the sinking of John F. Kennedy's PT-109.
Jim resumed practicing law in Wheeling in 1945. He was chairman of West Virginia's Racing Commission from 1957 to 1960, when he was elected judge, first judicial circuit of West Virginia. He stepped up to chief judge in 1975 and held that post until he retired in 1981. Survivors include his wife, Jessie Whitaker McClure, son James T. II '73, daughter Louise R. Mackay, four grandchildren, and a sister, Barbara McClure Doty.
The Class of 1935.
James served in the navy during WWII, in the Pacific.1 He was U.S. Circuit Court Judge in 1980. James Granville Mcclure '35
Published in May 14, 2003, of the Princeton Alumni Weekly Issue
Jim died Jan 19, 2001, in Wheeling, W.Va. He prepared for Princeton at Mercersburg Academy, and at Princeton majored in politics and was a member of Cannon Club. He got his LLB at West Virginia's Law School in Morgantown in 1938. That same fall he was back in Wheeling, in private law practice.
Looking back on his two years in the Naval Reserve during WWII, starting in 1943, Jim admitted it broadened his resume. After indoctrination at Norfolk, Va., he received orders to report to Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, as an intelligence officer attached to a group of PT boats stationed there. Jim next investigated and wrote the official Navy report on the sinking of John F. Kennedy's PT-109.
Jim resumed practicing law in Wheeling in 1945. He was chairman of West Virginia's Racing Commission from 1957 to 1960, when he was elected judge, first judicial circuit of West Virginia. He stepped up to chief judge in 1975 and held that post until he retired in 1981. Survivors include his wife, Jessie Whitaker McClure, son James T. II '73, daughter Louise R. Mackay, four grandchildren, and a sister, Barbara McClure Doty.
The Class of 1935.
Children of James Grandville McClure and Jessie Edgington Whitaker
Last Edited=2 Jan 2012
Citations
- [S15] June (Shaull) Lutz, History of the Op Den Graef / Updegraff Family (Grand Rapids, Michigan; 1433 Elderwood Ct. N.W.: J. S. Lutz, 1988), p. U-154.