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Thomas Richard Purnell was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on August 10, 1846. Purnell was an attorney who served as state librarian (1873-1876), legislator (1876-1877 & 1883-1884), and judge for the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District (1897-1908). He died in Raleigh on December 19, 1908.

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