Judge Abner S. Lipscomb - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

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"Abner Smith Lipscomb, lawyer, justice, and secretary of state during the Mirabeau B. Lamar administration, the son of Joel and Elizabeth (Chiles) Lipscomb, was born on February 10, 1789, in Abbeville District, South Carolina. He studied law in the office of John C. Calhoun, was admitted to the bar in 1810, and began practice at St. Stephens, Alabama.

In 1819 he was appointed a circuit judge of Alabama and from 1823 to 1835 was chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He was a member of the Alabama legislature in 1838.

In 1839 he moved to Texas and established a law practice. He was secretary of state under Lamar from January 31 to December 13, 1840. Lipscomb was a member of the Convention of 1845 and served that year on the select committee that drew up a report on the General Land Office. He was appointed an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court in 1846 by Governor James Pinckney Henderson and was elected to the same position in 1851 and 1856.

Lipscomb married Elizabeth Gains in 1813. She died in 1841, and he married Mary P. Bullock of Austin in 1843.

Lipscomb died in Austin on December 8, 1856, and was buried in the State Cemetery. Lipscomb County, established in 1876, was named in his honor.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Harold Schoen, comp., Monuments Erected by the State of Texas to Commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence (Austin: Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations, 1938). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941). Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970).

Mary J. Highsmith

"LIPSCOMB, ABNER SMITH." The Handbook of Texas Online. [Accessed Tue Apr 29 12:23:04 US/Central 2003]."

Marker Number: 14876 Marker Text: --- front side --- Born in South Carolina February 10, 1789 Died Dec. 8, 1856 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 --- back side --- Member of Legislature, Ala., 1818 Associate Justice, Supreme Court, Ala. 1820 - 1835 Secretary of State, Republic of Texas, 1841 District Attorney, 1844 - 1845 Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Texas, 1846 - 1856 Lipscomb County, Texas was named in his honor

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