The Political Graveyard: Massachusetts: State Supreme Court

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Massachusetts: State Supreme Court

Justices of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court, 1782-1999 (May be incomplete!)
William Cushing 1782-89 Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent 1782-91 David Sewall 1782-89 Increase Sumner 1782-97 Francis Dana 1785-1806 Nathan Cushing 1790-1800 Robert Treat Paine 1790-1804 Thomas Dawes 1792-1802 Theophilus Bradbury 1797-1803 Samuel Sewall 1800-14 Simeon Strong 1801-05 George Thatcher 1801-24 Theodore Sedgwick 1802-13 Isaac Parker 1806-30 Charles Jackson 1813-23 Daniel Dewey 1814-15 Samuel Putnam 1814-42 Samuel Sumner Wilde 1815-50 Levi Lincoln, Jr. 1824-25 Marcus Morton 1825-40 Charles Augustus Dewey 1837-66 Samuel Hubbard 1842-47 Richard Fletcher 1848-53 Charles Edward Forbes 1848 Theron Metcalf 1848-65 George Tyler Bigelow 1850-68 Caleb Cushing 1852-53 Pliny Merrick 1853-64 Benjamin Franklin Thomas 1853-59 E. Rockwood Hoar 1859-69 Reuben Atwater Chapman 1860-73 Horace Gray 1864-81 James Denison Colt 1865-66 Dwight Foster 1866-69 John Wells 1866-75 James Denison Colt 1868-81 Seth Ames 1869-81 Marcus Morton 1869-90 Charles Devens 1873-77 William C. Endicott 1873-82 Otis P. Lord 1875-82 Augustus Lord Soule 1877-81 William Allen 1881-91 Charles Devens 1881-91 Walbridge Abner Field 1881-99 Charles Allen 1882-98 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1882-1902 Waldo Colburn 1882-85 William Sewall Gardner 1885-87 Marcus P. Knowlton 1887-1911 James M. Morton 1890-1913 James Madison Barker 1891-1905 John Lathrop 1891-1906 John Wilkes Hammond 1898-1914 William Caleb Loring 1899-1919 Henry K. Braley 1902-29 Henry N. Sheldon 1905-15 Arthur P. Rugg 1906-38 Charles A. DeCourcy 1911-24 John C. Crosby 1913-37 Edward P. Pierce 1914-37 James B. Carroll 1915-32 Charles Francis Jenney 1919-23 William C. Wait 1923-34 George Augustus Sanderson 1924-32 Fred Tarbell Field 1929-47 Charles Henry Donahue 1932-40 Henry Tilton Lummus 1932-55 Louis S. Cox 1937-40 Joseph L. Hurley 1937-56 Jacob J. Spiegel 1961-72 Francis J. Quirico 1969-81 Charles Fried as of 1995-99

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1885 Sep 26: Waldo Colburn, died in office.

1890 Aug 27: Marcus Morton, resigned.

1891 Jun 4: William Allen, died in office.

1914 Dec 1: John Wilkes Hammond, resigned.

1929 Jan 17: Henry K. Braley, died in office.

1956 Apr 29: Joseph L. Hurley, died in office.

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