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Missouri: State Supreme Court

Justices of the Missouri State Supreme Court, 1820-1995 (May be incomplete!)
Mathias McGirk 1820-41 John D. Cook 1820-23 John Rice Jones 1820-24 Rufus Pettibone 1823-25 George Tompkins 1824-45 Robert Wash 1825-37 John C. Edwards 1837-39 William B. Napton 1839-51 William Scott 1841-49 P. H. McBride 1845-49 James Harvey Birch 1849-51 John F. Ryland 1849-57 Hamilton Rowan Gamble 1851-55 William Scott 1851-61 Abiel Leonard 1855-57 William B. Napton 1857-61 John C. Richardson 1857-59 Ephraim B. Ewing 1859-61 Barton Bates 1862-65 William Van Ness Bay 1862-65 John D. S. Dryden 1862-65 David Wagner 1865-77 Nathaniel Holmes 1865-68 Walter L. Lovelace 1865-66 Thomas J. C. Fagg 1866-68 Philemon Bliss as of 1868-72 William B. Napton as of 1873-80 James Britton Gantt 1890-1903 W. W. Graves 1905-28 Archelaus M. Woodson 1907-17 John C. Brown 1911-15 Henry W. Bond 1913-17 Charles B. Faris as of 1913-19 Robert F. Walker 1913-30 James T. Blair 1915-24 Frank Ely Atwood as of 1925-35 Robert W. Otto as of 1926 North T. Gentry 1929 George R. Ellison 1931-47 Clarence A. Burney 1932-33 Ernest M. Tipton 1933-55 C. A. Leedy, Jr. 1933-55 James M. Douglas 1937-47 Albert M. Clark 1939-47 Laurance M. Hyde 1942-55 Roscoe P. Conkling 1947 S. P. Dalton 1950-65 Henry Ide Eager as of 1955-64 Robert True Donnelly as of 1965-88 Elwood Lauren Thomas as of 1991-95

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1820 Nov 14: Mathias McGirk, appointed.
  • 1820 Nov 16: John D. Cook, appointed.
  • 1820 Nov 27: John Rice Jones, appointed.
  • 1823: Rufus Pettibone, appointed.
  • 1824 Feb 1: John Rice Jones, died in office.
  • 1825 Jul 31: Rufus Pettibone, died in office.
  • 1839 Jan 13: William B. Napton, appointed.
  • 1841: Mathias McGirk, resigned.
  • 1851: William B. Napton, defeated.
  • 1855: Hamilton Rowan Gamble, resigned.
  • 1857: William B. Napton, elected.
  • 1866 Aug 5: Walter L. Lovelace, died in office.
  • 1872: George Howell Shields, defeated.
  • 1880 Nov 2: Robert D. Ray (Dem), elected; Joseph V. C. Karnes (Rep), defeated; Peter E. Bland (Greenback), defeated.
  • 1905: W. W. Graves, appointed.
  • 1906: W. W. Graves (Dem), elected.
  • 1906 Nov 6: Archelaus M. Woodson (Dem), elected.
  • 1908: W. W. Graves (Dem), elected.
  • 1910 Nov 8: John C. Brown, elected.
  • 1912 Nov 5: Robert F. Walker (Dem), elected; Henry W. Bond (Dem), elected.
  • 1914 Nov 3: James T. Blair (Dem), elected.
  • 1915 Sep 4: John C. Brown, died in office.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Archelaus M. Woodson (Dem), nominated; Charles B. Stark (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Fred L. Williams (Dem), nominated; Glendy B. Arnold (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1916 Aug 1: James M. Johnson (Rep), nominated; Robert S. Robertson (Rep), defeated in primary; Francis M. Hayward (Rep), defeated in primary; Robert Lincoln Shackelford (Rep), defeated in primary; Samuel D. Hodgdon (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Edward Higbee (Rep), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Joseph Park (Progressive), nominated unopposed, but withdrew.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Tyrrell Williams (Progressive), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Eugene Ayres (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Kenneth B. Martin (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Aug 1: Sherman Hatten (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
  • 1916 Nov 7: Archelaus M. Woodson (Dem), elected; James M. Johnson (Rep), defeated; Kenneth B. Martin (Socialist), defeated; Eugene Ayres (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1916 Nov 7: Fred L. Williams (Dem), elected; Edward Higbee (Rep), defeated; Sherman Hatten (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1918: W. W. Graves (Dem), elected.
  • 1920 Nov 2: Conway Elder (Rep), elected; William T. Ragland (Dem), defeated.
  • 1920 Nov 2: Edward Higbee (Rep), elected; John I. Williamson (Dem), defeated.
  • 1920 Nov 2: David E. Blair (Rep), elected; Fred L. Williams (Dem), defeated.
  • 1922 Nov 7: Robert F. Walker (Dem), elected.
  • 1924 Nov 4: Frank Ely Atwood (Rep), elected; James T. Blair (Dem), defeated.
  • 1928 Jun 17: W. W. Graves, died in office.
  • 1930 Nov 4: George R. Ellison (Dem), elected; David E. Blair (Rep), defeated.
  • 1930 Nov 19: Robert F. Walker, died in office.
  • 1932 Nov 8: Ernest M. Tipton, elected.
  • 1933 Feb 14: C. A. Leedy, Jr., appointed.
  • 1934 Nov 6: C. A. Leedy, Jr., elected; Walter A. Higbee (Rep), defeated.
  • 1936 Nov 3: Ernest S. Gantt (Dem), elected; Charles C. Madison (Rep), defeated.
  • 1936 Nov 3: John Caskie Collet (Dem), elected; Conway Elder (Rep), defeated.
  • 1937 Apr 3: James M. Douglas, appointed.
  • 1938 Nov 8: James M. Douglas, elected; Albert M. Clark, elected.
  • 1940 Nov 5: George R. Ellison (Dem), elected; Frank Ely Atwood (Rep), defeated.
  • 1942 Nov 3: Ernest M. Tipton, elected; C. A. Leedy, Jr., elected.
  • 1950 Jan 3: S. P. Dalton, appointed.
  • 1955 Feb 25: Ernest M. Tipton, died in office.
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