David W. Hurst (c. 1820s – 1882)[1][2] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1863, and nominally until 1865.[3]
Born in Amite County, Mississippi, both of Hurst's parents died in his childhood, and his education thereafter "was such as could be got in the local schools [in the 1830s], by boys of limited means".[1] Hurst began reading law "before he had attained his majority",[1] and after gaining admission to the bar in Mississippi, practiced law for forty years in that state.[2] During the American Civil War, Hurst was a colonel in the 33rd Mississippi Regiment.[4] An 1899 history of the court noted that Hurst "was in October, 1863, elected to fill the unexpired term of Justice Smith, but the courts were then closed and his occupancy of the bench was merely nominal".[5]
Hurst did not seek reelection.[1]
He died at his home in Pike County, Mississippi, in his fifties.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "The Late Hon. David W. Hurst", The Jackson Clarion (July 26, 1882) p. 2.
- ^ a b c "The Late David W. Hurst", The Magnolia Gazette (August 25, 1882), p. 1.
- ^ Leslie Southwick, Mississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996, 18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998).
- ^ Robert Lowry, William H. McCardle , A History of Mississippi (1891), p. 440.
- ^ Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 511.
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