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Samuel Blair Griffith was born on May 31, 1906, in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
He was born 31 May 1906, in Lewiston, Pennsylvania.

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Samuel Griffith

Australian politician

For the American politician, see Samuel Griffith (Pennsylvania politician). For the American general, see Samuel B. Griffith.

Sir Samuel Walker GriffithGCMG PC KC (21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919. He also served a term as Chief Justice of Queensland and two terms as Premier of Queensland, and played a key role in the drafting of the Australian Constitution.

Griffith was born in Wales, arriving in the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales (but now in the state of Queensland) at the age of eight. He attended the University of Sydney, and after further legal training was called to the bar in 1867. Griffith was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1872. He served as Attorney-General from 1874 to 1878, and subsequently became the leader of the parliament's liberal faction. Griffith's terms as premier ran from 1883 to 1888 and from 1890 to 1893. He led the Australian delegation to the 1887 Colonial

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GRIFFITH, SAMUEL B., II

March 27, 1983

CHESTERVILLE –Brig. Gen Samuel Blair Griffith II, 76, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), died at his Newport, R.I., home, March 27 [1983]. The family summer residence the past several years was at Norcross Pond Lodge here with mailing address, Mt. Vernon. He was a recipient of an honorary doctor”s degree from the University of Maine at Farmington in 1974.

Born May 31, 1906, in Lewistown, Pa., he grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Shadyside Academy and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.

Along with his outstanding military career of more than 25 years of active service, Griffith was a noted author, lecturer and expert on China. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1929 with a commission of 2nd lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Prior to World War II, he was engaged in the Second Nicaraguan campaign and served in China, Cuba and England. During his first tour of duty in China, he was a language officer at the American Embassy in Peiping.

During World War II, following a period of observing British commando training, h

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845-1920), chief justice and premier, was born on 21 June 1845 at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, second son of Rev. Edward Griffith (1819-1891), Independent minister, and his wife Mary, née Walker. Edward served at Portishead and Wiveliscombe, Somerset, after his first pastorate at Merthyr. Then in 1853 an invitation from the Colonial Missionary Society, supported by the prominent colonists John Fairfax and David Jones, took him with his wife and family of two sons and three daughters to Australia. He became Congregational minister at Ipswich, Queensland (1854-56); Maitland, New South Wales (1856-60); and Wharf Street, Brisbane (1860-89). Samuel, despite the brevity of his sojourn in Wales, regarded himself as Welsh; his romanticizing ignored the reality of his English background. He drifted from his father's fundamentalism, as a politician becoming embarrassed by Edward's presence in Brisbane, and joined the more fashionable Church of England after his father died in 1891.

Samuel was educated at Ipswich (18