Charles Loring (November 26, 1873 – March 7, 1961) was an American

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from

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. He served as Chief Justice of the

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from January 1944 to July 1953.

Early life and education

The only child of Lyman Loring and Eugenie Hutchinson and sixth great grandson of

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

pioneer

Thomas Loring Thomas Loring was an early settler of Hingham and Hull, Massachusetts. He was present at some of the key moments in the earliest history of Hingham, Massachusetts. But later " e large Loring families were prominent in the town f Hull and remai ...

,Charles Henry Pope
Loring Genealogy
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, Murray and Emery, 1917), pp.365-6, accessed 10 June 2014 Charles was born on a farm in the town of Kinnickinnic, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, and moved to

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in 1877. He studied at

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, State Normal School at

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, and

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Career

During

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he served as Major

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and Lt. Col. Judge Advocate in regular army.Biographies of the Justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court
, Minnesota State Law Library, Accessed November 28, 2010. He served as Chief Justice of the

from January 1944 to July 1953.

References

1873 births 1961 deaths People from St. Croix County, Wisconsin Minnesota lawyers Chief justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court Minnesota state court judges University of Minnesota Law School alumni Phillips Exeter Academy alumni {{Minnesota-state-judge-stub