George W. Smyth (died 1832)"Tribute of Respect", Mississippi Free Trader (December 28, 1832), p. 3. was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1832.Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.
Smyth graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.Shana Walton and Barbara Carpenter, Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century (2012), p. 51.
He succeeded Harry Cage and served only during the December term of 1832, when the court was reorganized under the revised constitution.Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 506. According to John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, he was "on the threshold of a distinguished career when he died.
His death was announced to a meeting of the Mississippi Hibernian Society on December 19, 1832.
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