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George W. Smyth (Mississippi judge)

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George W. Smyth (died 1832)[1] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1832.[2]

Smyth graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.[3][4]

He succeeded Harry Cage and served only during the December term of 1832, when the court was reorganized under the revised constitution.[5] According to John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, he was "on the threshold of a distinguished career when he died.[4]

His death was announced to a meeting of the Mississippi Hibernian Society on December 19, 1832.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Tribute of Respect", Mississippi Free Trader (December 28, 1832), p. 3.
  2. ^ Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.
  3. ^ Shana Walton and Barbara Carpenter, Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century (2012), p. 51.
  4. ^ a b Mississippi, as a Province, Territory, and State: With Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens. Power & Barksdale. 1880.
  5. ^ Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.
Political offices
Preceded by Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
1832–1832
Succeeded by
Court reorganized