{{Short description|American judge (1858–1914)}} thumb|right|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.<ref name="IHSI">''An Illustrated History of the State of Idaho'' (1899), p. 176-77.</ref> 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.<ref name="IHSI"/> In 1893, Stewart was elected to represent Ada County, Idaho in the Idaho Senate,<ref name="IHSI"/> and was then elected to serve as speaker of that body.<ref>Hubert Howe Bancroft, ''History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana: 1845-1889'' (1890), p. 280.</ref> His wife died in 1895.<ref name="IHSI"/> In 1896, he was appointed to a seat on the Third Judicial District.<ref name="IHSI"/> He remarried in 1888, to Agnes L. Sheets.<ref name="IHSI"/>
In 1907, Stewart was appointed to the Idaho Supreme Court, becoming chief justice in 1913. Stewart died the following year, in Portland, Oregon.<ref>"News of the Profession", ''Law Notes, Volume 18'' (November 1914), p. 157.</ref>
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==External links== * Evan Filby, "[http://sfcompanion.blogspot.com/2019/02/idaho-supreme-court-justice-george.html Idaho Supreme Court Justice George Stewart]", South Fork Companion: Idaho History, History, and Other Musings and Rants (February 26, 2018)
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