Herbert Titus

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox politician Herbert William "Herb" Titus (October 17, 1937 – June 20, 2021) was an American attorney, writer, and political candidate. He was the Constitution Party's nominee for Vice President during the 1996 presidential election.

Early life

Titus was born in Baker City, Oregon, on October 17, 1937. He attended Baker public schools, where he graduated as co-valedictorian of the class of 1955. Four years later he graduated from the University of Oregon, where he had served as student body president. Titus graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1962.<ref name="CSC"/>

Career

Titus held a law degree from Harvard University, graduating cum laude, and a B.S. degree in political science from the University of Oregon, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.<ref name="WJO-PC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="CSC"/> He was vice president of the freshman class at Oregon.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He was an active member of the Virginia Bar Association and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and District of Columbia and Federal Circuits. He was also admitted to practice in the Army Court of Criminal Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.<ref name="WJO-PC"/>

After two years as a trial attorney and a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice,<ref name="WJO-PC"/> Titus worked as a professor of law from 1964 to 1979 at the state universities of Oklahoma, Colorado and Oregon.<ref name="CSC"/> He was "active in various left-wing-based political causes" during this period, opposing the Vietnam War and supporting homosexual rights and abortion rights. He also worked with attorneys and clients on a number of constitutional cases in his role as a regional director with the American Civil Liberties Union.<ref name="CSC"/>

In 1975, Titus was "dramatically converted to Christ" while attending a Sunday School class with his wife, after which he studied with Dr. Francis Schaeffer in Switzerland for a year.<ref name="CSC"/><ref>Dr. Herb Titus - Biography WordMP3.com retrieved 2014/04/18</ref><ref name="AmView"/>

He left his tenured position as professor of law at the University of Oregon in 1979 to become a member of the charter faculty at the O. W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University.<ref name="CSC"/> Three years later, Titus moved to CBN University (later named Regent University), where he served for a total of eleven years, first as the founding Dean of the School of Public Policy<ref name="AmView">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and then as Vice-President for Academic Affairs.<ref name="CSC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Starting in 1986, Titus became the founding Dean of the College of Law and Government in Regent University.<ref name="WJO-PC"/><ref name="AmView"/> All told, Titus taught constitutional law, common law, and other subjects at five different law schools for almost 30 years.<ref name="WJO-PC"/>

He was the author of a book entitled God, Man and Law: The Biblical Principles.<ref name="CSC"/>

Titus was of counsel at the Virginia law firm of William J. Olson, P.C., specializing in Constitutional Law, Legislative Practice, Appellate Practice, Election and Campaign Finance, and Firearms Law.<ref>Herbert William Titus Martindale.com retrieved December 6, 2017</ref>

Politics

Titus was the 1996 vice presidential nominee for the Constitution Party (then known as the U.S. Taxpayer's Party) as the running mate of the party founder Howard Phillips.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>History of the Constitution Party www.constitutionparty.com retrieved 2014/05/01</ref>

Along with his client, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, Titus was an original drafter of the Constitution Restoration Act, which sought to take out of federal court jurisdiction appellate cases that involved public officials who acknowledged God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government, and provided for the impeachment of federal judges who disregarded the act.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Judge Roy Moore Introduces Constitution Restoration Act 2004 Template:Webarchive WAFF News, February 13, 2004</ref> The act did not pass either time it was introduced, but its tenets were incorporated into the 2004 Republican Party platform.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

Residents of Chesapeake, Virginia, Titus and his wife, Marilyn, to whom he had been married 52 years at the time of his death, had four children and 15 grandchildren.<ref>About Us: Biography of Herbert W. Titus His son, Troy A. Titus, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced to 30 years in prison for operating multiple fraud schemes to steal and misappropriate almost $10 million from clients and investors. Template:Webarchive LawAndFreedom.com retrieved 2014/04/17</ref>

Titus died on June 20, 2021, a practicing lawyer until his death.<ref name=law/>

Writings

• Judicial Tyranny: The New Kings of America? - contributing author (Amerisearch, 2005) Template:ISBN
• God, Man and Law: The Biblical Principles (Institute In Basic Life Principles, 1994) Template:ISBN

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