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.[1] 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,[1] from which Haines graduated in 1893.[1][2] 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.[1] He returned to the practice of law, including periods as Middlesex County liquor prosecutor, and state's attorney.[1] Haines served on the Superior court from 1918 to 1925,[2] when he was elected to the Supreme Court by a unanimous vote of the General Assembly on February 19, 1925.[3]

Haines died in Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown at the age of 92, after a lengthy illness.[2]