| Robert Ailshie | |
| Office: | 20th Attorney General of Idaho |
| Term: | January 6 – November 16, 1947 |
| Party: | Republican |
| Predecessor: | Frank Langley |
| Successor: | Robert E. Smylie |
| Birth Date: | February 16, 1908 |
| Birth Place: | Boise, Idaho, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Boise, Idaho, U.S. |
| Resting Place: | Cloverdale Memorial Park, Boise, Idaho |
| Relations: | James F. Ailshie (father) |
| Education: | University of Idaho (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
Robert Ailshie (February 16, 1908 – November 16, 1947)[1] was an American attorney and politician from Idaho who served as the state's 20th attorney general for less than eleven months in 1947.[2] [3] His father, James Ailshie (1868–1947), was a justice on the Idaho Supreme Court for 24 years, with several stints as chief justice.[4]
Elected attorney general in November 1946,[5] [6] Ailshie died at age 39 of a heart attack at home; his mother had died a week earlier and his father less than six months prior.[7] [8] His brother James Jr. (1900–1938), a former U.S. attorney, also died of a heart attack in his late thirties, nearly a decade earlier.[9]