Waldo Colburn

Infobox State Senator


name = Waldo Colburn
caption =
state = Massachusetts
state_senate= Massachusetts
district = 2nd Norfolk
term = 1879
term_end =1880
predecessor =
successor =
order2 =
office2 =Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]
district2 =
term_start2 = 1854
term_end2 = 1854
predecessor2
successor2 =
order3 =
office3 =Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]
appointed3 =John Davis Long
term_start3 = November 10, 1882
term_end3 = September 26, 1885 [Citation |Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | year = 1886 | title = Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Vol 140.| page = 604 | publisher = Little, Brown, and Company | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1886]
predecessor3 =William Crowninshield Endicott
successor3 =William Sewell Gardner
order4 =
office4 = Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court
appointed3 = William Gaston (Massachusetts)
district4 =
term_start4 = May 27, 1875
term_end4 =November 10, 1882
predecessor4 = Otis Phillips Lord
successor4 =
order5 =
office5 =Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Board of Assessors and
Overseers of the Poor
Dedham, Massachusetts
district5 =
term_start5 =
term_end5 =
predecessor5 =
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order6 = Member of the Board of Selectmen Dedham, Massachusetts
office6 =
district6 =
term_start6 = 1855
term_end6 =1864
predecessor6 =
successor6 =Ezra W. Taft [Citation |last = Scholer | first = William | year = 1871 | title = A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War| page = 493 | publisher = William Scholer | location = Boston, MA | date = 1871]
party = Whig, Democratic [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13. | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]
birth_name =
birth_date = November 13, 1824 [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 12. | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]
birth_place = Dedham, Massachusetts [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 12. | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]
death_date = September 26, 1885 [Citation |Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | year = 1886 | title = Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Vol 140.| page = 604. | publisher = Little, Brown, and Company | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1886]
death_place = Dedham, Massachusetts [Citation |Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | year = 1886 | title = Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Vol 140.| page = 604. | publisher = Little, Brown, and Company | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1886]
death_cause =
alma_mater = Phillips Andover
Profession = Attorney
residence = Dedham, Massachusetts
spouse = Mary Ellis Gay (m. November 21, 1852; d. October 22, 1859), Elizabeth C. Sampson (m. August 5, 1851) [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13. | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]
children = Mary Colburn, Anna F. Colburn [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13. | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]
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Waldo Colburn, (November 13, 1824 - September 26, 1885) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Colburn was originally a member of the Whig party and after that party dissolved he became a Democrat. [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13. | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]

Political Career

In 1856 Colburn was elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a member of the Dedham, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen, Board of Assessors and, Overseers of the Poor. In 1857 he was the Chairman of the Committe on Parishes, Religious Societies, Etc. In 1858 he was the Chairman of the Committee on Railroads and Canals. In 1870 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate for the second Norfolk district. [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]

Legal Career

Colburn attended Harvard Law School from 1848 to 1849 [Citation |last = Warren | first = Charles | year = 1908 | title = History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America| page = 126 | publisher = Lewis Publishing Company | location = New York, NY | date = 1908] studied law in the office of Ira Cleveland, [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884] and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar on May 3, 1850. [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]

Judicial Career

On May 27, 1875 [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884] Colburn was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Superior Court by Governor Gaston. [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884]

On November 19, 1882 Colburn was appointed by Governor Long as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. [Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | year = 1884 | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | date = 1884] Colburn served as an Associate Justice of the Court until his death.

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