Ephraim Brevard Ewing

Ephraim Brevard Ewing (1819 – June 21, 1873) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1859 to 1861 and from January 1873 until his death that summer.

Early life, education, and political career Born in Todd County, Kentucky, in 1819, Ewing was the son of Rev. Finis Ewing, a distinguished divine. Ewing was educated at Cumberland College, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. Two months earlier a strongly pro-Union provisional government seized control of the state after Federal forces occupied Jefferson City, exiling Claiborne Jackson and pro-Confederate members of the state legislature. The provisional government then set about securing the loyalty oaths of those remaining. The removed judges were replaced by the appointments of Barton Bates William Van Ness Bay, and John D. S. Dryden; all three appointees were elected to their seats in 1863.

Ewing returned to the bench in 1870, when he was elected as a judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court, Ewing assumed office in January 1973, but died suddenly in June of that year.