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Dwight Loomis

Dwight Loomis was an American judge and politician from Connecticut who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Connecticut's 1st congressional district from 1859 to 1863. He served as a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut from 1864 to 1875 and as a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1875 to 1891.

Early life and education
He was born in Columbia, Connecticut, where he attended the common schools. He also attended the academies in Monson, Massachusetts, and Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1844, he began the study of law under John H. Brockway in Ellington, Connecticut. He entered school in the law department of Yale University and graduated in 1847. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Rockville, Connecticut. ==Career==
Career
Loomis served as a Whig member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1851. He switched to the Republican party after the dissolution of the Whig party and served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856. He died on September 17, 1903, in a train accident near Waterbury, Connecticut, and was interred in Grove Hill Cemetery in Rockville, Connecticut. ==Footnotes==
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