Sion Luther Perry (c. 1793 – August 1874) was a justice of the

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from 1828 to 1832. Perry was appointed to the court from

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. He fought at the Battle of Emuckfaw, in what would later become

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, near the end of the

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, and settled in Madison in 1815, and Tuscaloosa three years later."Alabama News
Hon. Sion L. Perry
, ''Union Springs Herald'' (August 12, 1874), p. 2. Perry was reported to have been "the first attorney that located within the corporate limits of Tuscaloosa city". He served as a member of the

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in 1821, and was a circuit judge from 1828 to 1833, having been elected to a newly established seventh circuit in 1828, which automatically placed him on the state supreme court. He served on the court from January 9, 1828 to January 14, 1832, and was thereafter a circuit court judge until 1834.Willis Brewer, ''Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: From 1540 to 1872'' (1872), p. 94-95. Perry died in Tuskaloosa at the age of 82.

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