Anthony B. Shelby

Anthony Bledsoe Shelby (January 15, 1789 – August 14, 1851) was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas from 1839 to 1841.

Life and career Born in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee to David Shelby, an attorney, and Sarah Bledsoe, Shelby was descended on his father's side from the family of Revolutionary War participant Isaac Shelby, and on his mother's side was the grandson of Anthony Bledsoe of Kentucky. He read law to gain admission to the bar, and in the 1820s, he succeeded his father clerk of the Sumner Circuit Court. He later moved to Texas, where he "assisted in gaining independence for that state", and served as a justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic. and was in turn the father of federal judge David Davie Shelby. Another son, Winchester B. Shelby, born in June 1827, also in Gallatin, was a colonel in Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

He died in Brandon, Rankin County, Mississippi, and was buried in Brandon Cemetery.