George W. Smyth (Mississippi judge)

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]

  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.