Arthur H. Day

Arthur Hiram Day (February 1, 1890 – January 11, 1967) was an American lawyer, politician, judge, and college football coach. A Republican, served two terms as an Ohio State Senator in the 1920s and a six-year term as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, from 1935 to 1940. Day was the head football coach at Trinity University in Waxahachie, Texas for one season, in 1912.

Biography Day was born on February 1, 1890, at Pandora, Ohio, to Hiram and Jessie Ayres Day. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, where he played football, basketball, and baseball, and ran track before graduating in 1912 with an A.B. degree. In August 1912, Day was appointed physical director and coach at Trinity University in Waxahachie, Texas.

Day attended the Case Western Reserve University School of Law for one year, He ran for re-election to the court in November, 1940, but lost to Gilbert Bettman.

Day lost election for Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney in 1941, and was elected again to the Court of Common Pleas in 1942. He served four terms, was re-elected to a fifth but died before serving any of it on January 11, 1967. He died in Cleveland, and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Family Arthur H. Day was married to Clara Loring on January 28, 1919. He later married Gertrude Medlin Bixby, who had two children and died in 1940. He then married Kathryn Mullen.

Early in life, Arthur H. Day was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Masons, Loyal Order of Moose, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Delta Theta Phi.

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