Signed CIVIL WAR CONGRESSMAN SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SENATOR CT LOOMIS AUTOGRAPH

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DWIGHT LOOMIS
(1821 – 1903)
CIVIL WAR REPUBLICAN PARTY US CONGRESSMAN FROM CONNECTICUT 1859-1863,
CIVIL WAR JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT 1864-1875,
POST-WAR JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF CT 1875-1891
&
STATE SENATOR FROM CT – SERVING AS CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 1857-1859
Loomis introduced the resolution in Congress to make Flag Day a National Holiday on June 11, 1862!
HERE’S LOOMIS’ SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED:
“
Dwight Loomis,
Rockville,
Conn.”
The document has been inlaid to another sheet, measures 6” x 9” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.
A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO YOUR CIVIL WAR ERA STATE OF CONNECTICUT POLITICAL HISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE
DWIGHT LOOMIS
Dwight Loomis
(July 27, 1821 – September 17, 1903) was a
United States Representative
from
Connecticut
. He was born in
Columbia, Connecticut
where he attended the common schools. He also attended the academies in
Monson, Massachusetts
and
Amherst, Massachusetts
. He taught school and was also graduated from the law department of
Yale University
in 1847. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at
Rockville, Connecticut
.
Loomis was a member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
in 1851 and a delegate to the
Republican National Convention
in 1856. In addition, he was a member of the
Connecticut Senate
1857-1859. Later, he was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863). While in Congress, he served as chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (
Thirty-sixth Congress
). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862. After Congress, he served as judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut 1864-1875 and a Justice of the
Connecticut Supreme Court
1875-1891. He moved to
Hartford, Connecticut
in 1892 and was Connecticut referee from 1892 until his death in a train accident near
Waterbury, Connecticut
in 1903. He was buried in Grove Hill Cemetery, Rockville, Connecticut.
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