About William C. Wait
Lived 1860 – 1935 (aged 74). William C. Wait was an American jurist.
William Cushing Wait (December 18, 1860 – January 28, 1935) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1923 to 1934. He was appointed by Governor Channing H. Cox.
Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to Elijah and Eliza Wait, his family moved to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1870, and Wait graduated from Medford High School in 1870. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1882, followed by a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1885. He worked in the office of former Boston mayor Nathan Matthews Jr. for a year before entering into a partnership with a Harvard classmate.
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American judge (1860–1935)
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William C. Wait was born on 18 December 1860 in Charlestown.
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William C. Wait died on 28 January 1935 in Boston.
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