After graduating from Bainbridge, GA public schools, he attended Oglethorpe University for one year, thereafter studying law in his father's law office, and was admitted to practice on July 20,1922, on his nineteenth birthday.
He married Victoria Hunter Clayton of Eufaula, Alabama, on June 4, 1929. They had two sons, William Vance III and Henry Clayton.
He served as president of the Decatur County, Albany Circuit, and Georgia Bar Associations; served on the Board of Governors of the Georgia Bar Association and on the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association. He was president of the local Chamber of Commerce; representative from Decatur County in the Georgia General Assembly; president of the Bainbridge Rotary Club; member of the Bainbridge Board of Education; deacon and superintendent of Sunday school of the Presbyterian Church.
He was the son of William Vance Custer (b. Humboldt, Tennessee, 1874) and Ruth Scott Custer (b.1876) He was brother to Ben Scott Custer, Oliver Cole Custer, and Eleanor J. Custer and Ruth Custer.
After graduating from Bainbridge, GA public schools, he attended Oglethorpe University for one year, thereafter studying law in his father's law office, and was admitted to practice on July 20,1922, on his nineteenth birthday.
He married Victoria Hunter Clayton of Eufaula, Alabama, on June 4, 1929. They had two sons, William Vance III and Henry Clayton.
He served as president of the Decatur County, Albany Circuit, and Georgia Bar Associations; served on the Board of Governors of the Georgia Bar Association and on the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association. He was president of the local Chamber of Commerce; representative from Decatur County in the Georgia General Assembly; president of the Bainbridge Rotary Club; member of the Bainbridge Board of Education; deacon and superintendent of Sunday school of the Presbyterian Church.
He was the son of William Vance Custer (b. Humboldt, Tennessee, 1874) and Ruth Scott Custer (b.1876) He was brother to Ben Scott Custer, Oliver Cole Custer, and Eleanor J. Custer and Ruth Custer.
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