Josiah Simpson

Josiah Simpson (c. May 1787 – September 21, 1817) was a Mississippi Territory judge from 1812 to 1817. Originally from Pennsylvania, he graduated from Princeton College and worked as a private tutor in Virginia and as a lawyer in New Jersey before he was appointed to the bench in Washington, Mississippi Territory. He was heavily involved in the Mississippi constitutional convention of 1817, but died suddenly in autumn of that year and did not live to see statehood.

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