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]
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Born 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]
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