{{Short description|American judge (1860–1923)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} [[File:Clinton A. Galbraith, photograph by Frank Davey.jpg|thumb|Galbraith c. early 1900]] '''Clinton Alexander Galbraith''' (March 6, 1860 – May 27, 1923)<ref name="HSB Obit">"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/85256742/ Judge Galbraith, Former Associate Justice Here, Dies]", ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'' (May 28, 1923), p. 1.</ref><ref name="Thoburn & Wright">Joseph B. Thoburn and Muriel H. Wright, ''Oklahoma, A History of the State and Its People'', Vol. IV (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1929), [https://genealogytrails.com/oka/pontotoc/bios3.html p. 553-555, transcribed by Susan Geist].</ref><ref name="Chronicles">{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/chroniclesofokla2019okla/page/292/mode/2up |title=Chronicles of Oklahoma|date=November 24, 1921|publisher=Oklahoma City, Okla., Oklahoma Historical Society|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> was an American lawyer and judge who served as attorney general of Oklahoma Territory and later as an associate justice of the Territorial [[Supreme Court of Hawaii]] from June 30, 1900 to June 15, 1904.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/import/import/Government%20Office%20Holders%20-%20Name%20IMJ/G/Galbraith,%20Clinton%20L.jpg |title=Galbraith, Clinton L. office record|work=state archives digital collections |publisher=state of Hawaii |accessdate= 2014-12-22}}</ref> After returning to Oklahoma, he held several legal posts including assistant attorney general of the state of Oklahoma.
==Early life, education, and career== Born in [[Hartsville, Indiana]], to S. Joseph William Galbraith and Catherine Elizabeth (McAllister) Galbraith, he received his undergraduate degree from [[Hartsville College]] in 1883, and matriculated at the [[University of Michigan Law School]] in Ann Arbor. He gained [[admission to the bar]] in 1885.<ref name="HSB Obit"/> After leaving Michigan, Galbraith moved to Texas and began practicing law in Terrell in partnership with J. O. Terrell, then briefly practiced in Fort Worth.<ref name="Thoburn & Wright"/><ref name="Chronicles"/>
In April 1889 he participated in the Land Run of 1889, arriving on one of the first trains and settling in Oklahoma City. Active in Democratic Party organizing in the territory, he was president of the Cleveland Democratic Club in Oklahoma City in the early 1890s. In 1893, Governor [[William Cary Renfrow]] appointed Galbraith as attorney general of Oklahoma Territory, in which office he served until 1897.<ref name="HSB Obit"/><ref name="Thoburn & Wright"/><ref name="Chronicles"/>
==Judicial service and later life== In 1898 Galbraith moved to the Hawaiian Islands and established a law practice as a partner of J. A. Magoon.<ref name="HSB Obit"/> He later moved to [[Hilo, Hawaii]], and following the establishment of the [[Territory of Hawaii]], President [[William McKinley]] appointed Galbraith as an associate justice of the territorial supreme court in 1900. Galbraith served in that capacity from June 30, 1900, to June 15, 1904.<ref name="HSB Obit"/><ref name="Thoburn & Wright"/><ref name="Chronicles"/> Galbraith was also active in local civic and fraternal life in Hawaii and is credited with founding a chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in Hilo.<ref name="Chronicles"/>
After completing his judicial term in Hawaii, Galbraith returned to Oklahoma. As of 1911 he was living in [[Ada, Oklahoma]], and was selected as an Oklahoma delegate to the [[Pan-Pacific Congress]] in Honolulu in February 1912.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0IAdkv01vQC&pg=PA447|title=The Oklahoma Red Book|date=November 24, 1912|page=447|via=Google Books}}</ref>
In his final years he served as a state supreme court commissioner, presiding judge of the second division, and finally as an assistant attorney general of Oklahoma, in which office he was serving at the time of his death.<ref name="HSB Obit"/><ref name="Thoburn & Wright"/><ref name="Chronicles"/>
==Personal life and death== On December 22, 1886, Galbraith married Nova Harmon in [[Terrell, Texas]]. The couple had no children.<ref name="Thoburn & Wright"/><ref name="Chronicles"/>
Galbraith died suddenly of a heart attack in [[Oklahoma City]] at the age of 63, and was buried there.<ref name="HSB Obit"/><ref name="Thoburn & Wright"/><ref name="Chronicles"/>
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