Anderson Hutchinson (1798–December 31, 1852) was a justice of the

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from 1841 to 1843. Born in

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, then in the state of

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(later in

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), Hutchinson received an education in the common schools, and

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in the office of his father, who was clerk of the court for Greenbrier County. Hutchinson moved several times, first to

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, where he gained

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, then to

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, and then to

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, where he "soon took a high position at the bar"."Judge Anderson Hutchinson", ''The Times-Picayune'' (January 12, 1853), p. 1. He compiled "Hutchinson's Code", and a "Manual of Forms", before moving to the

in 1840, where he "was scarcely naturalized before he was elected to the supreme Bench of the Republic". On the morning of September 11, 1842, while carrying out his duties as a Justice, Hutchinson was among a group of 58 people captured by Mexican forces in San Antonio."Judge Hutchinson", ''The Democrat'' (March 25, 1843), p. 2. While imprisoned in Mexico, he "was forced to undergo many physical hardships", until he was released by the interposition of the United States government. He then returned to Mississippi "with a constitution greatly impaired by the exposures to which he was subjected", and formally resigned from the Texas court. Hutchinson died at his home in

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1798 births 1852 deaths People from Greenbrier County, West Virginia U.S. state supreme court judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law Justices of the Republic of Texas Supreme Court 19th-century American judges {{Texas-state-judge-stub