APPENDIX. JUDICIAL DATA. JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT, CIRCUIT JUDGES, CHANCELLORS, AND ATTORNEYS-GENERAL OF MISSISSIPPI, SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT. UNDER the first Constitution of Mississippi, adopted in 1817, the Supreme Court was held semi-annually by the Cireuit 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. Judges of the Superior Court of Chancery, 1821-1857: Joshua G. Clarke, 1821; John A. Quitman, 1828; Edward Turner, 1835; Robert H. Buckner, 1839; Stephen Cocke, 1846; Charles Scott, 1853. Vice-Chancellors : Joseph W. Chalmers, appointed for the Northern District, established in 1842; succeeded by Henry Dickenson, elected in 1843; James M. Smiley, elected for the Southern District, established in 1846; George W. Doharty for the Northern District, 1850; B. C. Buckley for the Southern District, 1853. The Chancery Courts were abolished in 1857, and their juris diction conferred upon the Circuit Judges. Judges of the Circuit Courts, elected under the Constitution of 1832: T. A. Willis, A. M. Keegan, James F. Trotter, Alexander Montgomery, E. C. Wilkinson, 1833; T. B. Stirling, J. Scott, 1834; J. Walker, R. Hughes, G. Irish, 1835; James M. Maury, 1836; R. S. G. Perkins, Caswell R. Clifton, Buckner C. Harris, D. O. Shattuck, G. Coalter, T. S. Stirling, 1837; II. S. Bennett, Isaac R. Nicholson, J. A. Marshall, 1838; V. T. Crawford, F. W. Huling, J. Battaille, 1840; Franklin E. Plummer, G. Coalter, C. C. Cage, Albert G. Brown, J. II. Rollins, M. L. Fitch, S. Adams, H. S. Bennett, V. T. Crawford, B. F. Coruthers, II. Mounger, James M. Howry, 1841; T. A. Willis, 1843; Stanhope Posey, T. A. Willis, G. Coalter, A. B. Dawson, R. C. Perry, F. M. Rogers, H. R. Miller, 1845; Wiley P. Harris, 1847; Stanhope Posey, William S. Bodley, J. E. McNair, Jacob S. Yerger, John Walter, E. G. Henry, William L. Harris, P. D. Scruggs, William M. Hancock, Joel M. Acker, William Cothran, 1847-1860; Hiram Cassidy, II. W. Foote, J. E. McNair, J. A. P. Campbell, J. S. Hamm, J. W. Thompson, 1860–1868. Appointed by the Governor under the Constitution of 1868 : Green C. Chandler, James M. Smiley, A. Alderson, W. H. Hancock, Uriah Millsaps, Robert Leachman, J. A. Orr, W. D. Bradford, B. B. Boone, Orlando Davis, C. C. Shackleford, E. S. Fisher, Jason Niles, W. B. Cunningham, George D. Brown. The districts having been changed is the cause of their omission up to this period. The following Judges were appointed in 1876, and are yet on the bench, except Judge Cothran, who has lately died: 10th 66 J. B. Chrisman. 11th, Special Statutory District, embracing only Warren County, U. M. Young. 12th, Special Statutory District, comprising only Adams County, Ralph North. District Chancellors appointed by the Governor under the Chancery Court Act of 1871: 1st District, William G. Henderson. |