Judge Abner Lipscomb

Abner Lipscomb gave Texas his last seventeen years. He arrived in 1839 and served as Mirabeau Lamar's secretary of state from January to December 1840. In 1845 he sat in the convention that approved statehood, on the committee that reported on the General Land Office. Governor Henderson named him to the state supreme court in 1846, and he was elected to it in 1851 and 1856. He had married Elizabeth Gains in 1813 and lost her in 1841; in 1843 he married Mary Bullock of Austin. He died in Austin in December 1856.

What the plaque says

Judge Abner Lipscomb --- 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

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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