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Henry Y. Webb
Henry Young Webb (August 4, 1784 – September 20, 1823) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1820 to 1823. Webb was born in Granville County, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1807. Webb served in North Carolina's legislature before being appointed an Alabama territorial judge in 1818.Daniel J. Meador,The Supreme Court of Alabama—Its Cahaba Beginning, 61 ''Alabama Law Review'' No. 5 (2010), p. 897. He was "one of five men who gathered in Cahaba in 1820 to organize the supreme court of Alabama and hold its first term".Kimberly R. Jacobson, The Greene County Historical Society, ''Greene County and Mesopotamia Cemetery'' (2007), p. 108. References 1784 births 1823 deaths People from Granville County, North Carolina University of North Carolina alumni Members of the North Carolina General Assembly Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama {{US-state-judge-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Alabama
The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six-year terms. The Supreme Court is housed in the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. The Governor of Alabama may fill vacancies when they occur for the remainder of unexpired terms. The current partisan line-up for the court is all Republican. There is no specific limitation on the number of terms to which a member may be elected. However, the state constitution under Amendment 328, adopted in 1973, prohibits any member from seeking election once they have attained the age of seventy years. This amendment would have prohibited then Chief Justice Roy Moore from seeking re-election in 2018. However, on April 26, 2017, Moore announced his intent to run for the United States Senate seat formerly held by United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville County, North Carolina
Granville County is a County (United States), county located on the northern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 60,992. Its county seat is Oxford, North Carolina, Oxford. The county has access to Kerr Lake State Recreation Area, Kerr Lake and Falls Lake State Recreation Area, Falls Lake and is part of the Roanoke River, Roanoke, Tar River, Tar and Neuse River, Neuse River Drainage basin, watersheds. History 18th century Granville County and John the Baptist, St. John's Parish were established on June 28, 1746, from the upper part of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Edgecombe County. It was named for the John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, who as heir to one of the eight original Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, claimed one eighth of the land granted in the charter of 1665. The claim was established as consisting of approximately the northern half of North Carolina, and this territory came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
