Edward A. Counihan
American judge
About Edward A. Counihan
Lived 1882 – 1961 (aged 78–79).
Edward A. Counihan Jr. (1882 – February 1, 1961) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1949 to 1960. He was appointed by Governor Paul A. Dever.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Counihan and Dever were friends from childhood, He served in the Massachusetts Senate before becoming a judge. On March 23, 1921, Governor Channing H. Cox named Counihan to a seat on the District Court of East Cambridge, where Counihan remained for 28 years, before being named to the state supreme court in 1949. Counihan retired from the bench on November 23, 1960.
Counihan died at his home in Cambridge at the age of 78.
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Who was Edward A. Counihan?
American judge (1882–1961)
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Edward A. Counihan was born in 1882.
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Edward A. Counihan died in 1961.
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