Staunch advocate of introducing slavery to California; barring that, to split the state in half with the southern portion being pro-slavery.
[1] Democrat, then elected to the California Supreme Court as a member of the Know-Nothing Party, then a Democrat again.Father: Joseph Royal Terry (b. 17-May-1792, d. Nov-1877)
Mother: Sarah David Smith (b. 1793, d. 1837)
Brother: Joseph Terry (b. 15-Oct-1817)
Brother: Benjamin Franklin Terry (b. 18-Feb-1821, d. 17-Dec-1861, Battle of Rowlett's Station)
Brother: Joseph Nathaniel Terry (b. 29-Nov-1824)
Brother: Aurelius Josiah Terry
Brother: Clinton Lucretius Terry (b. 30-Jun-1831, d. 14-Apr-1862)
Wife: Cornelia Runnels (b. 22-May-1829, m. 26-Nov-1852, d. Dec-1884)
Son: Jefferson Davis Terry (d. Nov-1862)
Son: Samuel Langdon Terry (b. 1855, d. 1-Apr-1885)
Son: David S. Terry (b. 1857, d. Dec-1873)
Son: Clinton Terry (b. 1859)
Son: Frank Terry
Wife: Sarah Althea Hill (m. 7-Jan-1886, d. 1936)
California State Supreme Court (1855-59), Chief Justice (1857-59)
Battery San Francisco, fined $300
Assault with a Deadly Weapon stabbed Sterling A. Hopkins in the neck with a Bowie knife, San Francisco (1856), acquitted
Duel: Pistols with U.S. Senator David C. Broderick, Lake Merced, CA (13-Sep-1859)
Murder (1859), acquitted
Shot: Battle Chickamauga (Sep-1863), right arm
Shot by Police by U.S. Marshal David Neagle, Lathrop, CA (14-Aug-1889)
Irish Ancestry
Scottish Ancestry
AKA David Smith Terry