Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Crenshaw, Anderson May 22 1783 - August 31 1847
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JUDGE ANDERSON CRENSHAW was born in South Carolina, on May 22, 1783, and died
in Butler county, Ala., August 31, 1847. He was the first graduate of the
university of South Carolina, at Columbia, and entered the legal profession and
became distinguished as a lawyer in his native state. He removed to Alabama
about 1819, and settled at Cahaba, the capital, and removed to Butler county
about 1821. He was circuit judge from 1821 to 1838, and the circuit judges
constituted the supreme court of the state until 1832; was chancellor of
southern division of Alabama from 1838 till his death, in 1847, and while on the
supreme bench became somewhat noted for rendering dissenting opinions, which
afterward became the law. He was a fine classical scholar, and of considerable
attainments and quaint learning. The following extract is from Garrett's Public
Men of Alabama: "He was a whip in politics, but so moderate in his views and
feelings, and so devoted to the duties of the high places he occupied, that the
question of party politics was never brought to bear upon him, in consequence of
which he was retained in office under elections of the legislature, when large
democratic majorities existed. His virtues as a man, and his abilities and
integrity as a judge, gained the public confidence from the beginning of his
long administration of justice, which he retained to the last. Nothing more need
be added to such a pregnant record of success." Crenshaw county, Ala., was named
for him.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 553


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