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Abner Smith Lipscomb (February 10, 1789, in
Abbeville District
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,
South Carolina
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– December 8, 1856, in
Austin
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,
Texas
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) was an American and
Texan
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lawyer and judge. He was also appointed Secretary of State for the
Republic of Texas
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under the administration of
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Mirabeau B. Lamar
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who became a Texas politician, poet, diplomat, and soldier. He was a leading Texas political figure during the Republic of Texas, Texas ...
.
Lipscomb studied law in the office of
John C. Calhoun and passed the bar in 1810. In 1811, he began practice in
St. Stephens,
Alabama
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(then part of the
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.) He served in the
Alabama territorial legislature in 1818 and when Alabama became a state in 1819, he then became a circuit judge, which automatically made him a justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. When chief justice
Clement Clay of the
Alabama Supreme Court resigned in 1823, Lipscomb was chosen to be the next chief justice. The court was reorganized in 1832; Lipscomb continued as chief justice of the court, where he served until 1835. Lipscomb served a term in the Alabama state legislature in 1838.
He married on April 13, 1813, at St. Stephens to Elizabeth Gaines, sister of Ann Lawrence Gaines who married their cousin, Col.
George Strother Gaines. Col. Gaines' nephew, Hon.
Francis Strother Lyon
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began the study of law while working for Abner Smith Lipscomb in his office in St. Stephens.
In 1839 Lipscomb moved to the
Republic of Texas
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and established a law practice in
Brenham
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. He was Secretary of State under President Lamar from January 31, 1840, to December 13, 1840. Lipscomb was a member of the
Convention of 1845; in 1845, he also served on a committee that wrote a report on the Texas General Land Office. He was appointed an associate justice of the
Texas Supreme Court
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in 1846 by
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James Pinckney Henderson
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He was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, on March 31, ...
. As he was elected in 1851 and re-elected in 1856, he continued in this post until November 1856. He taught Law courses at
Baylor University
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from 1849 to 1856.
Lipscomb died in
Austin, Texas
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and was buried in the State Cemetery.
Lipscomb County, Texas
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and its county seat of
Lipscomb, Texas
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Geography
Lipscomb is located south of the center ...
, are named in honor of him. The remainder of the Lipscomb Family lives in Houston Texas, the patriarch of the Lipscomb clan, Charles Marty Lipscomb, lives in Edinburg Texas with his wife JP Lipscomb and his three children.
References
Abner S. Lipscomb, Second Chief Justice web page at the Alabama Department of Archives & History.
bio at the
Baylor University
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law school web page.
Lipscomb, Abner Smith entry in the ''
Handbook of Texas Online
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1789 births
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19th-century American politicians
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Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama
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Members of the Alabama Territorial Legislature
People from Abbeville County, South Carolina
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