Jun 28, 2017 · Among his other works are portraits of several speakers of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and supreme court justices of various States. In 1979 he painted Attorney General Bell's portrait, which was commissioned by a committee of friends of the Attorney General and presented to the Department of Justice.
Oct 20, 2003 · Griffin Bell, senior partner of King and Spalding and former U.S. attorney general, poses in the King and Spalding mock courtroom on October 29, 1999, in front of a portrait of himself that was painted when he was forty years old.
Feb 22, 2022 · In 1979 He painted the official portrait of the 72nd U.S. Attorney General, Griffin Bell. In 1988 the Stevens family moved to Florida, and settled in St. Petersburg in 1997. Peter Stevens died from cancer at age eighty-one on December 4, 2001.
Griffin Boyette Bell (October 31, 1918 – January 5, 2009) was the 72nd Attorney General of the United States, having served under President Jimmy Carter.Previously, he was a U.S. Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Education. Mercer University ( LLB) Griffin Boyette Bell (October 31, 1918 – January 5, 2009) was the 72nd Attorney General of the United States and previously was a U.S. Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit .
Griffin Bell. Griffin Boyette Bell (October 31, 1918 – January 5, 2009) was the 72nd Attorney General of the United States and previously was a U.S. Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit .
According to the Associated Press, Bell was being treated for complications from pancreatic cancer and had been suffering from long-term kidney disease. Governor Sonny Perdue ordered the flag of the United States flown at half-staff in the state of Georgia on January 7, 2009, the day of Bell's funeral.
In the aftermath of the disputed 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election between Democrat Lester Maddox and Republican Howard "Bo" Callaway, Bell joined Republican Judge Elbert Tuttle in striking down the Georgia constitutional provision requiring that the legislature chose the governor if no general election candidate receives a majority of the vote. The judges concluded that a malapportioned legislature might "dilute" the votes of the candidate with a plurality, in this case Callaway. Bell compared legislative selection to the former County Unit System, a kind of electoral college formerly used in Georgia to select the governor but invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court. Bell and Tuttle granted a temporary suspension of their ruling to permit appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and stipulated that the state could resolve the deadlock so long as the legislature not make the selection. In a five-to-two decision known as Fortson v. Morris, the high court struck down the Bell-Tuttle legal reasoning and directed the legislature to choose between Maddox and Callaway. Two liberal justices, William O. Douglas and Abe Fortas had argued against legislative selection of the governor, but the court majority, led this time by Hugo Black, took the strict constructionist line and cleared the path for Maddox's ultimate election.
Bell briefly returned to private practice in Atlanta in 1976. President Jimmy Carter appointed Bell Attorney General of the United States in 1977, serving until 1979.
Two liberal justices, William O. Douglas and Abe Fortas had argued against legislative selection of the governor, but the court majority, led this time by Hugo Black, took the strict constructionist line and cleared the path for Maddox's ultimate election.
Bell is the second individual from the left. Bell returned to private practice in Atlanta from 1979 until his death in 2009. In September 2004, Bell was appointed the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Military Commission Review.