Frank D. Haines (January 16, 1866 – January 20, 1959) was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1925 to 1936.
Born in Colchester, Connecticut, to David Haines and Amanda Taylor Haines, he was raised on a farm and attended Bacon Academy in that city. In 1883, he moved to Middletown, Connecticut, and worked as a bookkeeper until 1890, when he began to study law.[1] Haines "studied in the law office of M. Eugene Culver for two years and then persuaded Dean Francis Wayland to permit him to enrol as a senior in Yale Law School,[1] from which Haines graduated in 1893.[1][2] from which he graduated in 1893.
Haines entered into a partnership with Culver until 1895, when he became executive secretary to Governor Owen Vincent Coffin, until 1897.[1] He returned to the practice of law, including periods as Middlesex County liquor prosecutor, and state's attorney.[1] Haines served on the Superior court from 1918 to 1925,[2] when he was elected to the Supreme Court by a unanimous vote of the General Assembly on February 19, 1925.[3]
Haines died in Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown at the age of 92, after a lengthy illness.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Haines, Frank D., As Printed in the Connecticut Reports, volume 145, pages 740 - 742". Connecticut State Library Judge & Attorney Biographies. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Frank D. Haines, 92, Former Jurist, Dies", The Bridgeport Post (January 21, 1959), p. 55.
- ^ "Haines and Hinman Elected Justices", Hartford Courant (February 20, 1925), p. 7.
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