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Guy H. Sturgis

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Guy H. Sturgis, Attorney General of Maine, 1918 art from book, Mother Goose Comes to Portland

Guy H. Sturgis (March 3, 1877 – January 18, 1951) of Portland, Maine, was a long-serving Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from August 13, 1923, to March 8, 1949, serving as Chief Justice after August 8, 1940.[1]

Born in New Gloucester, Maine, Sturgis was " educated in the town's common schools, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1898. He received a law degree from Columbia University Law School in 1899, and studied law at the office of Thomas B. Reed".[2] Sturgis served as Maine Attorney General from 1917 to 1920.

References

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  1. ^ "Maine Supreme Court Chief and Associate Justices". Maine State Legislature. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
  2. ^ "The Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, 1820 to 2009". Nathan & Henry B. Cleaves Law Library. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
Political offices
Preceded by Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
1923–1949
Succeeded by