Eli Huston

{{Short description|American judge (c. 1799–1835)}}

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| name = Eli Huston

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| office = Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi

| term_start = 1832

| term_end = 1832

| predecessor = John Black

| successor = Court reorganized

| birth_date = {{circa|1799}}

| birth_place = Kentucky, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1835|06|12|1799|df=yes}}

| death_place = Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.

| nationality = American

| relatives = Felix Huston (brother)

| profession = Lawyer, judge

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Eli Huston (sometimes spelled Houston; c. 1799 – June 12, 1835)"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-commonwealth-from-the-natchez-courie/158884965/ From the Natchez Courier and Journal]", The Frankfort Commonwealth (July 11, 1835), p. 3."[https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-national-intelligencer-and-washing/158884737/ Deaths]", Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express (July 13, 1835), p. 3. was a Mississippi lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in 1832.

Born in Kentucky to Joseph Huston, he was the older brother of Felix Huston.{{Cite web|url=https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2016/04/15/mark-elliott-huston-biography/|title=Mark Elliott Huston Biography|first=Kentucky Kindred Genealogical|last=Research|date=April 15, 2016|website=Kentucky Kindred Genealogy}}{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015110023/https://www.cah.utexas.edu/research/subject_guides/subject_guide_southern.php |title=George W. Littlefield Southern History Collection|publisher=The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin}} Huston moved to Natchez, Mississippi, where he established a successful law practice. Huston was appointed to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by Justice John Black in 1832, "but was on the bench only a few months, owing to the changes of the revised constitution".{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-pEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA114|title=Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi|date=November 12, 1891|publisher=Goodspeed|via=Google Books}}Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.

Arkansas Governor Robert Crittenden, in an 1834 letter to his brother, described meeting Huston during a trip to Mississippi: "My reception there was most flattering, especially by Eli Huston who is one the first lawyers in the state — I had not known him before. He is an estimable man, and missconceived in character greatly"."[https://www.jstor.org/stable/40026390 A Letter from Robert Crittenden to John J. Crittenden]", The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 1962), p. 25.

Huston died after an illness of several weeks. Following his death, the members of the Natchez Bar of Adams County held a meeting to memorialize Huston, and resolved to assist with the arrangements for his funeral.