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Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.

Judges of the Mississippi Supreme Court.

• Mr. Smedes In the preface to his digest (1847) makes this note: "On application to the secretary of state, I found that no records had been kept of commissions to the different judges who had presided in the old Superior Court. It was Impossible, therefore, to procure any accurate Information from that office of the period of appointment and duration of office of the respective judges." This list is based upon Claiborne's Mississippi, Goodspeed's Memoirs, Lynch's Bench and Bar, and Walker's Report. In these accounts there are, however, conflicting statements.

1818—John Taylor (C. J.), William Bayard Shields, John P. Hampton, and Powhatan Ellis. Joshua G. Clarke succeeded Shields Leake, resigned.

1821—Walter Leake succeeded Taylor, deceased, Hampton becoming chief justice.

1822—Richard Stockton succeeded Clarke, resigned; Louis Winston succeeded Shields, resigned.

1824—Edward Turner succeeded Winston, resigned.

1825—Joshua Child (judge) succeeded Stockton, resigned; Isaac Caldwell succeeded Ellis, resigned.

1826—John Black succeeded Caldwell.

1827—George Winchester succeeded Hampton, resigned.

1829—Harry Cage succeeded Winchester, resigned; Isaac R. Nicholson was appointed judge of the new district that was created; Turner became chief justice.

1831—Alexander Montgomery succeeded Child, resigned.

1832—William L. Sharkey succeeded Turner, resigned; George W. Smyth succeeded Cage resigned; Eli Huston succeeded Black, resigned. Name of court was changed to "High Court of Errors and Appeals," judges to be elected.

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1833—William L. Sharkey (chief justice), Cotesworth P. Smith, and Daniel B. Wright.

1838—P. Rutulius R. Pray succeeded Smith; James F. Trotter succeeded Wright, resigned.

1840—Cotesworth P. Smith (by appointment) succeeded Pray, deceased; Edward Turner elected to succeed Pray.

1842—Reuben Davis (representative) (by appointment) succeeded Trotter, resigned; Alexander M. Clayton elected to succeed Davis.

1843—Joseph S. B. Thacher succeeded Turner.

1850—Cotesworth P. Smith succeeded Thacher.

1851—Collin S. Tarpley (by appointment) succeeded Sharkey, resigned; William Yerger elected to succeed Sharkey, Smith becoming chief justice.

1852—Ephraim S. Fisher succeeded Clayton.

1853—Alexander H. Handy succeeded Yerger.

1858—William L. Harris succeeded Fisher, resigned.

1863—David W. Hurst succeeded Smith, deceased, Handy becoming chief justice.

1866—Court reorganized with A. H. Handy chief justice, William L. Harris and Henry T. Ellett associates.

1868—Thomas G. Shackelford (chief justice), Ephraim G. Peyton, E. Jeffords, by appointment from a military commandant, succeeded the three supreme judges, resigned.

1870—Name of court changed to " Supreme Court of Mississippi," judges made appointive—E. G. Peyton (chief justice), H. T. Simrall, and Jonathan Tarbell.

1876—Hamilton H. Chalmers succeeded Peyton, deceased; J. A. P. Campbell succeeded Tarbell, Simrall becoming chief justice.

1879—James Z. George succeeded Simrall, resigned, and became chief justice.

1881—Timothy E. Cooper succeeded George, resigned to enter United States Senate, Chambers becoming chief justice.

1882—J. A. P. Campbell became chief justice, being senior associate.

1884—Timothy E. Cooper became chief justice.

1885—James M. Arnold succeeded Chalmers, deceased.

1888—J. M. Arnold became chief justice.

1889—Thomas H. Woods succeeded Arnold, resigned, becoming chief justice.

1891-J. A. P. Campbell became chief justice.

1894—Albert H. Whitfleld succeeded Campbell, Cooper becoming chief justice.

1896—Thomas R. Stockdale succeeded Cooper, resigned, Woods becoming chief justice.

1897—Samuel H. Terral succeeded Stockdale, Woods becoming chief justice.

1900—S. S. Calhoon succeeded Woods, resigned, Whitfleld becoming chief justice.

1903—A. H. Whitfleld reappointed and continued as chief justice.

1903—J. H. Price succeeded S. H. Terral, resigned. Jeff Truly succeeded J. H. Price, resigned.

1906—R. B. Mayes succeeded Judge Truly, whose term had expired.

1908—R. V. Fletcher filled unexpired term of Judge Calhoon, deceased.

1909—S. M. Smith appointed to succeed Judge Fletcher.