{{Short description|American judge (1884–1953)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Harry P. Ilsley | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Justice of Wyoming Supreme Court | term_start = 1952 | term_end = 1953 | nominator = | appointer = Frank A. Barrett | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|12|7|mf=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1953|2|18|1884|12|7|mf=yes}} | death_place = }} '''Harry Preston Ilsley''' (December 7, 1884 – February 18, 1953) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court from January 7, 1952, until his death.<ref name="WSA">Wyoming State Archives biography of Henry P. Ilsley, available at 2301 Central Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001.</ref>
Born in Markesan, Wisconsin, he was raised by an aunt and uncle because his parents died at an early age.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book">Wyoming Blue Book, Volume Three, Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department, 50th Legislature Centennial Edition, 1990, at 34.</ref> He attended high school in Deadwood, South Dakota, and graduated from the University of South Dakota School of Law in June 1908.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/> He was admitted to the South Dakota Bar and practiced law in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, until June 1910, when he moved to Sundance, Wyoming.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/> He was admitted to the Wyoming State Bar and practiced law in Sundance until 1920, when Governor Robert D. Carey appointed him to serve as a Wyoming state district court judge.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/> He served two years of an unexpired term and was then elected to five successive six-year terms.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/> On January 7, 1952, Governor Frank A. Barrett appointed him to the Wyoming Supreme Court to fill the unexpired term of retiring Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court Ralph Kimball.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/> In 1952, he was elected for a full six-year term on the Wyoming Supreme Court.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/> He died in office on February 18, 1953.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/> His son, John, practiced law in Gillette, Wyoming and later served as a district court judge on the Fourth Judicial District Court in Sheridan, Wyoming.<ref name="Wyoming Blue Book"/>
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==External links== *{{Find a Grave|29158634}} {{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef|before=Ralph Kimball}} {{s-ttl|title=Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court|years=1952-1953}} {{s-aft|after=Harry Harnsberger}} |- {{s-bef|before=E.C. Raymond}} {{s-ttl|title=Wyoming State District Judge|years=1920-1952}} {{s-aft|after=Preston T. McAvoy}} {{s-end}}
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