Robert Ailshie (February 16, 1908 – November 16, 1947) was an American attorney and politician from

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who served as the state's 20th

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for less than eleven months in 1947. His father, James Ailshie (1868–1947), was a justice on the

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for 24 years, with several stints as chief justice.

Personal life

Elected attorney general in November 1946, Ailshie died at age 39 of a

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at home; his mother had died a week earlier and his father less than six months prior. His brother James Jr. (1900–1938), a former U.S. attorney, also died of a heart attack in his late thirties, nearly a decade earlier.

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1908 births 1947 deaths Idaho Attorneys General Idaho lawyers People from Boise, Idaho People from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho University of Idaho alumni Harvard Law School alumni {{Idaho-politician-stub