George Winchester

George W. Winchester (1794 - February 1851) was a justice of the Mississippi's supreme court from 1827 to 1829.

He was born 1794 in Salem, Massachusetts, and graduated from Yale College in 1816. He and studied at Harvard Law School as a pupil of Judge John Story. He established a law practice in Natchez, Mississippi and served as a criminal court judge in Adams County, Mississippi.

He was a candidate for judge of the supreme court in February, 1827, to succeed Hampton, but the vote in the legislature was 19 to 16, for William B. Griffith. When the latter declined, the governor appointed Winchester, but the legislature, at its next session, gave the office, by a majority of one, to Harry Cage.

Winchester never married. Upon the occasion of his death in Natchez, Mississippi, aged about 59, in February 1851, the bar of Adams county, February 5, 1851, adopted resolutions testifying to his "calm, clearsighted understanding," and endearing virtues as a man. Foote wrote of him: "He was not an orator; but he spoke always in refined and polished language, and with impressive kindness and urbanity. I do not suppose that a single word of personal incivility, or of coarse revilement, ever passed his lips at the bar".