Henry Young Webb (August 4, 1784 – September 20, 1823)Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1921), p. 1738. was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1820 to 1823.
Webb was born in Granville County, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1807.Kemp Plummer Battle, History of the University of North Carolina (1907), p. 183.
Webb served in North Carolina's legislature before being appointed an Alabama territorial judge in 1818.Daniel J. Meador, "The Supreme Court of Alabama—Its Cahaba Beginning", 61 Alabama Law Review No. 5 (2010), p. 897. He was "one of five men who gathered in Cahaba in 1820 to organize the supreme court of Alabama and hold its first term".Kimberly R. Jacobson, The Greene County Historical Society, Greene County and Mesopotamia Cemetery (2007), p. 108.
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