Samuel Wilde

Samuel Sumner Wilde (1771–1855) was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Wilde was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1789, winning admission to the Massachusetts Bar in 1792. He practiced law in several towns of the state's Maine District before settling in Boston after Maine achieved statehood in 1820. In 1815 he was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the state's highest), serving until he retired in 1850.

Wilde was a prominent attorney in Massachusetts and served as a justice on the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1814 he was elected as a representative to the Hartford Convention.^[1]

References

↑ Theodore Dwight, History of the Hartford Convention: with a review of the policy of the United States Government which led to the War of 1812 (N. & J. White, 1833), pg. 427.(accessed July 4, 2009)

Davis, William. History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts

Legal offices
Preceded by Daniel Dewey	Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1815	Succeeded by George Bigelow

Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Chief justices (1692–present)	Stoughton Winthrop Addington Winthrop Samuel Sewall Lynde, Sr. Dudley Stephen Sewall T. Hutchinson Lynde, Jr. Oliver Adams Cushing Sargent Dana Parsons Sewall Parker Shaw Bigelow Chapman Gray Morton W. Field Holmes Knowlton Rugg F. Field Qua R. Wilkins Tauro Hennessey Liacos H. Wilkins Marshall Ireland Gants

Provincial period Associate justices (1692–1775)	Danforth Richards Samuel Sewall Winthrop Cooke Walley Saffin Hathorne Leverett Curwin Lynde, Sr. Thomas Davenport Quincy Dudley J. Cushing, Sr. Remington Saltonstall Graves Stephen Sewall Hubbard Lynde, Jr. J. Cushing, Jr. Russell Oliver Trowbridge F. Hutchinson Ropes W. Cushing Brown

Revolutionary period Associate justices (1775–80)	Sargent Reed Paine Warren Foster Sullivan D. Sewall

Commonwealth period Associate justices (1780–present)	Sumner Dana N. Cushing Paine Dawes Bradbury Sewall Strong Thatcher Sedgwick Parker Jackson D. Dewey Putnam Wilde C. Dewey Lincoln M. Morton, Sr. Hubbard Fletcher Forbes Metcalf Bigelow C. Cushing Merrick Thomas Hoar Chapman Gray Colt Foster Ames Wells M. Morton, Jr. Devens Endicott Lord Soule W. Allen Devens W. Field C. Allen Colburn Holmes Gardner Knowlton J. Morton Barker Lathrop Hammond Loring Braley Sheldon Rugg Decourcy Crosby Pierce Carroll Jenney Wait Sanderson F. Field Donahue Lummus Qua Cox Dolan Ronan Spalding R. Wilkins Williams Counihan Whittemore Cutter Kirk Spiegel Reardon Quirico Braucher Hennessey Kaplan H. Wilkins Liacos Abrams Lynch Nolan O'Connor Greaney Fried Marshall Ireland Cowin Spina Sosman Cordy Botsford Gants Duffly Lenk Hines

Italics indicate individuals who were offered seats on the court, but refused

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