Researching Dan Combs
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 586 people with the Combs surname? In that year Combs was ranked number 2993 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Dan means "Form of DANIEL - God is my judge" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Dan Combs on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dan Combs and the Combs Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 132 people with the Combs surname in the UK? Combs is now ranked number 3918 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 63803 people with the Combs surname in the USA? Combs is ranked number 136 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Dan Combs
Dan Jack Combs
Dan Jack Combs (August 22, 1924 – May 25, 2002) was a Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1983 to 1989 and the Kentucky Supreme Court from 1989 to 1993.
Combs rose to national prominence by successfully defending Appalachian Volunteers Margaret and Alan McSurely against charges of sedition in a case that took 15 years to fully adjudicate. After a long legal career, Combs unseated incumbent Elijah M. Hogge for a seat on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. In 1989, he challenged incumbent James B. Stephenson for his seat on the Kentucky Supreme Court. During the campaign, he attacked some of Stephenson's previous opinions in violation of a state judicial code that forbade judicial candidates from stating opinions related to cases they might later be asked to rule on. After the election, which Combs won, he was suspended for three months for violating the code, but the suspension was not carried out because Combs appealed the constitutionality of the code and eventually succeeded in overturning it.
Throughout his tenure on the court, Combs was known as being sympathetic to unpopular litigants and causes. He retired from the court in 1993, citing ill health stemming from a motorcycle accident and two strokes. In retirement, he was twice arrested on marijuana-related charges. He admitted using the drug medicinally to help with insomnia and became an advocate for its legalization. He died at home on May 25, 2002.
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