Christopher C. Scott

Christopher Columbus Scott (April 22, 1807 – January 19, 1859) was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1848 to 1859.

[1][2] Born at Scottsburg, Virginia,[2][3] Scott was orphaned at the age of eleven and was raised by a brother.

[1][2][3] He moved to Gainesville, Alabama, in 1828, to study law, but abandoned it for mercantile pursuits.

[3] Proving unsuccessful in this venture, he returned to Virginia, and attended Staunton Law School.

He remained in that position until 1848, when Governor Thomas Stevenson Drew appointed Scott as an associate justice of the state supreme court, to a seat vacated by the resignation of Williamson Simpson Oldham.