Robert W. Larrow

Robert W. Larrow (April 27, 1916 – August 2, 1991) was an American attorney, politician, and judge from Vermont. He served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court for seven years. The Vermont Encyclopedia describes him as "among a small group that led to the revitalization of the Vermont Democratic Party in the 1950s and 1960s, ending the Republican hegemony in Vermont."

Legal and political career Larrow served as Burlington city attorney for nineteen years, from 1944 to 1963. Emerson was broadly unpopular, and had barely beaten back a challenge in the Republican primary from maverick state senator Henry D. Vail. At the time, Larrow was thirty-six years old and known for being "bright and articulate," with "considerable energy and drive despite his Sydney Greenstreet-like girth."

He ran as the Democratic candidate for state attorney general in 1962, on a ticket with Philip H. Hoff; Larrow lost to Charles E. Gibson Jr., but Hoff won, becoming the first Democratic governor of Vermont in more than a hundred years. Vermont Chief Assistant Attorney General Louis P. Peck was appointed to replace him.

Larrow died on August 2, 1991, at the age of seventy-five, after a long illness. Larrow was buried at New Mount Calvary Cemetery in Burlington.