Linton Stephens

Linton Stephens (July 1, 1823 – July 14, 1872) was a Georgia, US lawyer and politician who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1859 to 1860.

Biography Stephens was the brother of Alexander H. Stephens. quote| Then and there it was "his youth awoke first and fully to the life of the mind" under the tutelage of Colonel Simpson Fouche, head of a large and excellent school at Crawfordville, where Stephens was prepared for admission to college. In June 1859, Governor Joseph E. Brown appointed Stephens to a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court vacated by the resignation of Charles James McDonald.

Personal life and death In 1852, Stephens married Emmeline Bell, widow of George Bell and daughter of Georgia judge James Thomas. Emmeline died in 1857, though Stephens afterwards remained close with Judge Thomas.

Stephens died of "congestion of the brain" at Sparta, Georgia, at the age of 49.