George W. Smyth (Mississippi judge) explained

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]

Notes and References

1. "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. Book: Mississippi, as a Province, Territory, and State: With Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens . 1880 . Power & Barksdale .
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.