Thomas Paty Stamps

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Thomas Paty Stamps (May 10, 1952 - December 24, 2003) was a successful Atlanta bankruptcy attorney whose litigation against the federal government during the farm crisis of the 1980's saved nearly 100 family owned farms in Georgia and Texas.^[1] He was very active in the Atlanta legal and historical preservation community, serving on the board of trustees of the Georgia Legal History Foundation and the board of directors of the Atlanta Bar Association’'s litigation section. He was also an associate editor of The Journal of Southern Legal History, and a fellow of the Georgia Bar Foundation.^[2] Stamps' major project was the reconstruction of President Woodrow Wilson's Atlanta law office.

Stamps earned his BA from the University of Illinois in 1973 and his JD from Wake Forest in 1979. He also worked toward his MA in history while at Emory University, researching the history of Coca Cola. He never received the degree because he put off submitting the final draft of his thesis. The paper sometimes humorously sat on his desk, untouched for decades. By 1985, Stamps was a principal in the law firm of Zusmann, Small, Stamps, & White, but started his own law firm during the early 1990s. His primary areas of practice also included general and corporate representation, corporate reorganization, and commercial litigation.

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