Description: 1 of Union County's State Supreme Court Justices who was at one point the youngest Chief Supreme Court Justice in the United States.
Birthplace: Union County, GA
Resting Place: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
Occupation: Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court; Georgia Democratic Party Chairman; Attorney; Judge; Bank Cashier
Spouse(s): Agnes Baker Reid
Parents: Norville Y. Reid; Sarah Elizabeth Reid
Facts of Interest: 1. His childhood home, known today as the Sampson-Reid Home, still stands today on what is known as Rogers Street just behind the Blairsville Square.
2. Interest was shown in him by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a potential candidate for the United States Supreme Court.
3. At the time of his appointment to Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, he was the youngest ever appointed chief justice in United States history.
4. He served on President D. Eisenhower's WW2 Staff in which he became the first ever person outside of British subject to sit as a presiding judge at the Old Bailey Court in England.
5. He was appointed as Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice by former Georgia Governor, E.D. Rivers, who he was also best friends with and who also a former Young Harris College classmate of his.