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- ↑ "Join Assembly Selects Blease". The State . January 15, 1926. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ↑ "BLEASE NAMED CHIEF JUSTICE BY LARGE VOTE". The Item (Sumter, SC). 14 Jan 1931. p. 1. Retrieved 1 Mar 2023.
- ↑ "Chief Justice Blease Resigns". Spartanburg Herald. Spartanburg, South Carolina. March 29, 1934. p. 1. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
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