Judge Charles Tait, says Brewer's Alabama, wasa gentleman of very
superior talents, and his scientific and literary acquirements made him
one of the most interesting men of his day. He was a cousin of Henry
Clay. While reading law in Baltimore, at the age of 19, he was thrown
from a horse and his leg so injured as to necessitate amputation. A few
years later he went to Georgia, became a successful lawyer, and was on
the bench of the Supreme Court. He was also a U.S. Senator 1809 -1819.
While in Georgia occurred his duel with Judge Doooly, who refused to
fight unless his leg was cased in a hollow tree to off-set Judge Tait's
single leg. He removed in 1819 to Alabama where he was appointed Judge of
the Federal district court. He resigned, 1826, and gave his attention to
planting, and refused the office of Minister of England in 1828. He died
in Wilcox Co., 1835.