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George H. Stewart

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George H. Stewart

George Harlan Stewart (February 26, 1858 – September 25, 1914) was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court from 1907 to 1914, serving as Chief Justice from 1913 to 1914.

Born in Connersville, Indiana, Stewart excelled in the local schools, completing a course of study in the Northern Indiana Normal School in 1879, and receiving a J.D. from North Indiana Law School in 1881, the same year he married Elizabeth School, with whom he had two children.[1] After practicing law in Indiana and Nebraska, Stewart relocated to Idaho in 1890, eventually partnering in a legal practice with future U.S. Senator William Borah.[1] In 1893, Stewart was elected to represent Ada County, Idaho in the Idaho Senate,[1] and was then elected to serve as speaker of that body.[2] His wife died in 1895.[1] In 1896, he was appointed to a seat on the Third Judicial District.[1] He remarried in 1888, to Agnes L. Sheets.[1]

In 1907, Stewart was appointed to the Idaho Supreme Court, becoming Chief Justice in 1913. Stewart died the following year, in Portland, Oregon.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f An Illustrated History of the State of Idaho (1899), p. 176-77.
  2. ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana: 1845-1889 (1890), p. 280.
  3. ^ "News of the Profession", Law Notes, Volume 18 (November 1914), p. 157.

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Political offices
Preceded by Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
1907–1914
Succeeded by