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Benjamin Loring Young

Benjamin Loring Young
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1921–1924
Preceded byJoseph E. Warner
Succeeded byJohn C. Hull
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
13th Middlesex District[1]
In office
1915[1]–1924
Preceded byImmanuel Pfeiffer Jr.[2]
Succeeded bySidney J. Stone[3]
Weston Selectman[1][4]
In office
1910[1][4]–1946
Personal details
BornNovember 7, 1885
Weston, Massachusetts
DiedJune 4, 1964(1964-06-04) (aged 78)
Boston, Massachusetts
Political partyRepublican[1][4]
SpouseMary Coolidge Hall
ChildrenBarbara, Charlotte Hubbard, Lorraine, and Benjamin Loring
Alma materHarvard College, 1907;[1][4] Harvard Law School, 1911[1][4]
ProfessionLawyer[1][4]

Benjamin Loring Young (November 7, 1885 – June 4, 1964) of Weston, Massachusetts was a US lawyer[4] and politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1921 to 1924.

Born in Weston in 1885,[1][4] Young graduated from Harvard College in 1907[1] and Harvard Law School in 1911.[1] Following nine years of legal practice, Young retired from the law. In 1910, Young was elected a Selectman of the Town of Weston, Massachusetts,[1] a position he held for thirty-six years. Young was elected as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives[1] in 1915, serving from 1916[1]–24.[3][5] Young served on the Ways and Means Committee in 1916,[4] and as the chairman of the Recess Committee on State Finances in 1917.[5] In 1928, Young ran unsuccessfully for US Senator. Young was on the Board of Parole and Advisory Board of Pardons for the State Prison and Massachusetts Reformatory from 1913 to 1915,[4][5] and the chairman of the State Board of Probation from 1927–42, a US Referee in Bankruptcy from 1925–41, and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1922-28.

On June 26, 1933[6][7] Young was a delegate to, and the president of,[8] the Massachusetts Convention [6] that ratified the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.[7]

Young married Mary Coolidge Hall in 1908; they divorced in 1935. They had four children: Barbara, Charlotte, Lorraine, and Benjamin Loring Jr. He died in Boston on June 4, 1964.[9]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Howard, Richard T. (1920), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1920, Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Review, p. 319
  2. ^ Who's Who in State Politics, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts: Practical Politics, 1915, p. 283
  3. ^ a b Howard, Richard T. (1925), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1925-1926, Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Review, p. 303
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Who's Who in State Politics, 1916, Boston, Massachusetts: Practical Politics, 1916, p. 337
  5. ^ a b c Howard, Richard T. (1923), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1923-1924, Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Review, p. 85
  6. ^ a b Everett Somerville Brown, ed. (1938), Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, p. 204
  7. ^ a b Everett Somerville Brown, ed. (1938), Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, p. 213
  8. ^ Everett Somerville Brown, ed. (1938), Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, p. 209
  9. ^ "B. L. Young, 78, Dies, Former House Speaker". The North Adams Transcript. North Adams, Massachusetts. June 5, 1964. p. 1. Retrieved May 21, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
Party political offices Preceded byWilliam M. Butler Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts(Class 1) 1928 Succeeded byRobert M. Washburn Massachusetts House of Representatives Preceded byImmanuel Pfeiffer Jr. Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 13th Middlesex District 1915 — 1924 Succeeded bySidney J. Stone Preceded byJoseph E. Warner Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1921 — 1924 Succeeded byJohn C. Hull


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