Talk:List of justices of the Supreme Court of Mississippi

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The entry for Justice James L. Robertson currently links to an article about a Scottish poet from the turn of the 19th Century. I'd fix it myself, but I don't know how the "sortname" formatting used in this list works.209.165.166.193 (talk) 00:11, 8 December 2017 (UTC) (Nevermind; fixed it)209.165.166.193 (talk) 00:26, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

James Daniel Lynch, The Bench and Bar of Mississippi (1881), p. 533-34.

Under the first Constitution of Mississippi, adopted in 1817, the Supreme Court was held semi-annually by the Circuit Judges sitting in bank at the capital of the State. The Judges during that period, 1817-1832, and the years in which they were respectively appointed, were as follows:

John P. Hampton, C.J.; W. B. Shields, John Taylor, Powhatan Ellis, Joshua G. Clarke, 1818; Walter Leake, 1820; Livingston B. Metcalf, 1821; Richard Stockton, 1822; Edward Turner, C. J., 1824; J. Caldwell, 1825; John Black, George Winchester, 1826; William B. Griffith, Harry Cage, 1827; Isaac R. Nicholson, 1828; William L. Sharkey, 1831.

Judges of the High Court of Errors and Appeals elected by the people under the Constitution of 1832:

William L. Sharkey, C.J.; Daniel Wright, Cotesworth P. Smith, 1833; P. Rutilius R. Pray, 1837; James F. Trotter, 1839; Cotesworth P. Smith, Edward Turner, 1840; Alexander M. Clayton, Reuben Davis, 1842; Joseph S. B. Thacher, 1843; A. M. Clayton, 1845; W. L. Sharkey, C.J.; J. S. B. Thacher, 1847; William Yerger, Collin S. Tarpley, 1851; Cotesworth P. Smith, C.J.; Ephraim S. Fisher, Alexander H. Handy, 1855; William L. Harris, 1859; Alexander H. Handy, C.J.; B. W. Hurst, William L. Harris, Henry T. Ellett, 1863.

Judges of the Supreme Court appointed by the Governor under the Constitution of 1868:

Thomas Shackleford, C.J.; Ephraim G. Peyton, E. Jeffords, 1868; Ephraim G. Peyton, C.J.; Horatio F. Simrall, Jonathan Tarbell, 1870; Horatio Simrall, C.J.; H. H. Chalmers, J. A. P. Campbell, 1876; J. Z. George, C.J., 1879.

Judge George was elected to the United States Senate by the Legislature of 1880, but retains his position upon the bench, which, it is understood, he will not resign until he takes his seat in the Senate on the 4th of March, 1881. Judge Chalmers will then be Chief Justice by virtue of his seniority in office.

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