Sidney Burr Beardsley (1823 – April 21, 1890)[1] was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1887 to 1889.
Beardsley carried his city of Bridgeport and most of the towns of his county, but was defeated upon the whole vote.
[1] In 1874, Beardsley accepted a seat on the bench of the Superior Court, proffered with the support of state senator Nathan Wheeler.
[1] On February 15, 1887, Governor Phineas C. Lounsbury nominated Beardsley to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the retirement of Justice Miles T. Granger, after Judge Edward I. Sanford of New Haven declined the appointment.
[2] Beardsley resigned from the bench in June 1889, effective November 1, 1889, due to poor health; he was succeeded by Edward Woodruff Seymour.