First Session Supreme Court of Georgia-GHM 130-1-Talbot Co
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N 32° 40.618 W 084° 32.415
16S E 730643 N 3618150
Courthouse in Talbotton
Waymark Code: WM6V3M
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2009
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At Talbotton on Jan. 26, 1846, the first meeting of the Supreme Court of Georgia was held in the dining hall of the old Clairborne Hotel which stood one block west of this marker. Judge Hiram Warner and Judge Eugenius A. Nisbet were present. Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin, the other member of the newly established Court, did not attend because of illness in his family.
At the Court`s first session James M. Kelly of Perry was elected Reporter and Robert e. martin of Milledgeville, Clerk. Martin was sworn in.
Fifteen attorneys were admitted to the Supreme Court during the term held at Talbotton January 1846. The first lawyers in Georgia to qualify to practice before Georgia`s highest court were: Alfred Iverson, Hines Holt, James Johnson, Marcus Johnston and Adam G. foster of Columbus; Barnard Hill, Allen F. Owen, Edmund H. Worrill, William F. Brooks, Anthony G. Perryman, Levi B. Smith, Stephen D. Heard, Marion Bethune, and J.L. Stephenson of Talbotton; and Amos W. Hammond of Culloden
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 130-1
Date: 1953
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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