Chester Bentine McLaughlin (February 10, 1856 – May 12, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He was born on February 10, 1856, in

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, the son of Lyman McLaughlin and Harriet C. McLaughlin. He graduated from the

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. He married Lucy Warner. He lived at

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. He was Judge and Surrogate of the Essex County Court from 1891 to 1895. He was a delegate to the

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of 1894. He was a justice of the

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(4th District) from 1896 to 1917, since 1898 on the Appellate Division (1st Dept). On January 16, 1917, he was appointed by Governor Charles S. Whitman to the

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to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Frank H. Hiscock as

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. In November 1917, he was elected on the Republican and Democratic tickets to a full term on the Court of Appeals, and remained on the bench until the end of 1926 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years. He died on May 12, 1929, in

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;''C.B. M'LAUGHLIN, EX-JURIST, DEAD''
in ''

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'' on May 13, 1929 (subscription required) and was buried at the Moriah Cemetery in Moriah.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McLaughlin, Chester B. 1856 births 1929 deaths Judges of the New York Court of Appeals New York Supreme Court justices People from Port Henry, New York University of Vermont alumni People from Moriah, New York New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department justices