Donald Wedgewood Webber (November 19, 1906 – November 15, 1995)Justice Donald Wedgewood Webber
, ''Portland Press Herald'' (November 16, 1995), p. 18. of

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, was a justice of the

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from October 8, 1953 to July 31, 1973. He went to public schools in Auburn before graduating from

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in 1927 and

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in 1931. During

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, he was an officer in the

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. On September 1, 1948, he was appointed a judge on the

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by Governor

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. On October 8, 1953, he was appointed an associate judge on the Maine Supreme Court by Governor Burton M. Cross. In 1973, Weber retired from the court and returned to private practice, continuing to hear Superior Court cases by referral until 1990.

Personal life and death

In 1929, Webber married Lucy Nourse. He died in Auburn, at the age of 88.

References

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