Benjamin Loring Young

Benjamin Loring Young
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1921–1924
Preceded by Joseph E. Warner
Succeeded by Leverett Saltonstall
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
13th Middlesex District[1]
In office
1915[1] – 1924
Preceded by Immanuel Pfeiffer, Jr.[2]
Succeeded by Sidney J. Stone[3]
Member of the
Weston, Massachusetts
Board of Selectmen[1][4]
In office
1910[1][4] – 1946
Personal details
Born November 7, 1885[1][4]
Weston, Massachusetts[1][4]
Political party Republican[1][4]
Spouse(s) Mary Coolidge Hall
Children Barbara, Charlotte Hubbard, Lorraine, and Benjamin Loring
Alma mater Harvard College, 1907;[1][4] Harvard Law School, 1911[1][4]
Profession Lawyer[1][4]

Benjamin Loring Young (November 7, 1885 – 1964) of Weston, Massachusetts was a US lawyer[4] and politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1921 to 1924.

Young graduated from Harvard College in 1907[1] and Harvard Law School in 1911.[1] Following nine years of legal practice, Young retired from the law. In 1910, Young was elected a Selectman of the Town of Weston, Massachusetts,[1] a position he held for thirty-six years. Young was elected as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives[1] in 1915, serving from 1916[1]–24.[3][5] Young served on the Ways and Means Committee in 1916,[4] and as the chairman of the Recess Committee on State Finances in 1917.[5] In 1928, Young ran unsuccessfully for US Senator. Young was on the Board of Parole and Advisory Board of Pardons for the State Prison and Massachusetts Reformatory from 1913 to 1915,[4][5] and the chairman of the State Board of Probation from 1927–42, a US Referee in Bankruptcy from 1925–41, and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1922-28.

On June 26, 1933[6][7] Young was a delegate to, and the president of,[8] of the Massachusetts Convention [6] that ratified the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.[7]

Young married Mary Coolidge Hall in 1908; they divorced in 1935. They had four children: Barbara, Charlotte Hubbard, Lorraine, and Benjamin Loring, Jr.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Howard, Richard T. (1920), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1920, Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Review, p. 319.
  2. ↑ Who's Who in State Politics, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts: Practical Politics, 1915, p. 283.
  3. 1 2 Howard, Richard T. (1925), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1925-1926, Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Review, p. 303.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Who's Who in State Politics, 1916, Boston, Massachusetts: Practical Politics, 1916, p. 337.
  5. 1 2 3 Howard, Richard T. (1923), Public Officials of Massachusetts 1923-1924, Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Review, p. 85.
  6. 1 2 Everett Somerville Brown, ed. (1938), Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, p. 204.
  7. 1 2 Everett Somerville Brown, ed. (1938), Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, p. 213.
  8. ↑ Everett Somerville Brown, ed. (1938), Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: State Convention Records and Laws, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, p. 209.
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Preceded by
Immanuel Pfeiffer, Jr.		 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
13th Middlesex District
1915 — 1924 		Succeeded by
Sidney J. Stone
Preceded by
Joseph E. Warner		 Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
1921 — 1924 		Succeeded by
John C. Hull


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