John Dennis Phelan

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John Dennis Phelan (23 March 1809 New Brunswick, New Jersey – 9 September 1879 Birmingham, Alabama) was a jurist in the southern United States.

Biography

With his parents, he moved to Huntsville, Alabama, in 1818. He graduated at the University of Nashville in 1828, studied law in Virginia, and was admitted to the bar of that state, but returned to Alabama in 1830. He became editor of the Huntsville Democrat, was in the legislature in 1833-35, attorney general of the state in 1836, speaker of the house in 1839, and a judge of the circuit court in 1841-51. He was then elevated to the supreme bench, held office for two years, and again in 1863-65. In the interval when he was not a judge in the Alabama Supreme Court, he was clerk to that body, and also later in 1865-68. He became professor of law in the University of the South in 1869, holding the chair till his death.

Family

His brother was James Phelan, Sr., also a jurist and journalist.

Notes

References

Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Phelan, John Dennis". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton

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Alabama Territory 1817–1819	Moore J. Walker

State of Alabama 1819–	Dellet Owen Dellet Bagby Adair Oliver S. Walker Kelly Oliver Clay Gayle Penn Oliver McClung Bagby McClung Phelan S. Walker Baker D. Moore Erwin A. B. Moore L. Walker Rather Garrett R. Walker Jackson Meek Crenshaw Cooper McCraw Harrington J. Hubbard Stone Parsons Anderson Clements Pettus Clark Clements Waller Pettus Tunstall Martin Carmichael Merritt Lynne Merrill Miller Norman Beck Brown Fite Adams Ashworth Brewer Fite Lyons McCorquodale Drake Clark Hammett M. Hubbard

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Name	Phelan, John Dennis
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Short description	American politician
Date of birth	23 March 1809
Place of birth
Date of death	9 September 1879
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