Frank D. Haines

Frank D. Haines (January 16, 1866 – January 20, 1959) was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1925 to 1936.

Born in Colchester, Connecticut, to David Haines and Amanda Taylor Haines, he was raised on a farm and attended Bacon Academy in that city. In 1883, he moved to Middletown, Connecticut, and worked as a bookkeeper until 1890, when he began to study law. Haines "studied in the law office of M. Eugene Culver for two years and then persuaded Dean Francis Wayland to permit him to enrol as a senior in Yale Law School, from which he graduated in 1893.

Haines entered into a partnership with Culver until 1895, when he became executive secretary to Governor Owen Vincent Coffin, until 1897.

Haines died in Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown at the age of 92, after a lengthy illness.