[1] In 1820, he was a member of the Electoral College in the 1820 presidential election, voting for James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins.
[1][2] Minor was then succeeded, "as soon as the General Assembly convened in December 1823", by the appointment of John Gayle.
[2] However, when Chief Justice Clement Comer Clay resigned that same month, and Abner Smith Lipscomb was elevated to chief justice, Minor was elected to fill Clay's seat.
[1] In his personal life, on September 14, 1809, Minor married Frances Throckmorton in Petersburg, Virginia, with whom he had seven daughters and five sons.
[1] Upon his death at the age of 55, the Supreme Court of Alabama published an obituary and decreed that the judges would wear a badge of mourning for the remainder of the term.