John Stephen (1780 – July 26, 1844)[1][2] was a Maryland public official and judge who served as a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1822 to 1844.[3]
Biography
editBorn in St. Mary's County, Maryland to the Rev. John Stephen, minister of All Faith's Church,[1] Stephen was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates for Baltimore City from 1804 to 1805.[1] On March 17, 1806, President Thomas Jefferson nominated Stephen to serve as United States Attorney for the District of Maryland.[4] Stephen resigned from that office in 1810,[5] and thereafter served as a Member of Governors' Council from 1810 to 1811, and as a member of the Maryland Senate representing the Western Shore from 1812 to 1815.[1][2] He lived in Annapolis from 1817 to 1818, and again served on the Governors' Council from 1819 to 1820, and in the Maryland Senate in 1821.[1][2]
In 1822, Stephen was named to the Maryland Court of Appeals, where he remained until his death in 1844.[1][2] He was described as a "learned and able jurist" who "obtained a high reputation as a judge".[2]
Personal life and death
editStephen married Juliana J. Brice, daughter of Colonel James Brice, on November 1, 1808.[1][6] They resided at Stephen's estate, called "Bostwick", in Bladensburg, Prince George's County,[1] and they had eight sons.[6]
Stephen died in Annapolis, Maryland, at about age 64.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h "John Stephen (1780-1844)". Archives of Maryland.
- ^ a b c d e f The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge (1842), p. 22.
- ^ "Maryland Court of Appeals Judges, 1778–". Archives of Maryland. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
- ^ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States, Vol. 2. (1806), p. 30.
- ^ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States (1810), p. 294.
- ^ a b Joshua Dorsey Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland (1905), p. 157.
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