Alexander Hamilton Handy

[4] In 1853, he was elected as an associate justice on the High Court of Errors and Appeals and was reelected in 1860, and again in 1865.

[3] He resigned his office due to the Reconstruction-era subjection of the court to military power by the Federal government.

[3] Handy was a secessionist, opining of the "black" Republican Party that: The first act of the black republican party will be to exclude slavery from all the territories, from the District of Columbia, the arsenals and the forts, by the action of the general government.

That would be a recognition that slavery is a sin, and confine the institution to its present limits.

The moment that slavery is pronounced a moral evil, a sin, by the general government, that moment the safety of the rights of the south will be entirely gone.In 1835, he married Susan Wilson Stuart.