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James Michie, a South Carolina lawyer, was admiralty judge from 1752 to 1758, speaker of the assembly 1752-1754, and chief-justice for a brief period in 1759. He died July 16, 1760. S.C. Hist. Mag., X. 160. His predecessor James Graeme (also chief justice) had died in late August, 1752.