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Jacob Hersey Loud (February 5, 1802 – February 2, 1880) was a Massachusetts lawyer [3] and an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the Massachusetts Senate, for twenty two years as the Register of Probate for Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and twice as the Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts.
Register of Probate of Plymouth County; In office 2001–2015: Preceded by: John J. Daley: Succeeded by: Matthew J. McDonough: Member of the Massachusetts Senate; In office January 1, 1975 – January 7, 1981: Preceded by: John M. Quinlan: Succeeded by: Edward P. Kirby: Constituency: Bristol, Plymouth and Norfolk district (1975–1979) 2nd ...
James R. Lawton (October 20, 1925 – February 3, 2007) was an American jurist and politician who served as a probate judge in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and a Brockton city councilor.
First female (to appear before the full bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court): Margaret M. McChesney (1921) in 1926 [5] [6] First African American female: Blanche E. Braxton (1923): [1] [2] lawyer in Massachusetts. She is also the first African American female lawyer to practice in the United States District Court in Massachusetts ...
The Court also has general equity jurisdiction. The Probate and Family Courts of Massachusetts serve 14 counties: Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester. In addition to probate matters, the courts archive divorce and estate records, wills ...
Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History. (Harvard UP, 1998). Finkleman, Paul, ed. African Americans and the Legal Profession in Historical Perspectives: 1700–1990 (1992). McDaniel, Cecily Barker. “Fearing I Shall Not Do My Duty to My Race If I Remain Silent”: Law and Its Call to African American Women, 1872–1932. (PhD Diss.
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Built in 1749, the two-story wood-frame building is believed to be the oldest wooden courthouse in the United States; it stands on the site of the first courthouse built by Plymouth Colony settlers, and may incorporate elements of a 1670 building. The site was originally the site of Edward Winslow's first house in Plymouth. [2]