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American lawyer

Paul Dudley


Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
In office 1745–1751
Appointed by	William Shirley
Preceded by	Benjamin Lynde Sr.
Succeeded by	Stephen Sewall
Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
In office 1718–1745
Appointed by	Samuel Shute
Preceded by	Samuel Sewall
Succeeded by	Nathaniel Hubbard
1st Attorney General of Massachusetts
In office 1702–1718
Governor	Joseph Dudley William Tailer Samuel Shute
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	John Valentine

Personal details
Born	(1675-09-03)September 3, 1675 Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died	January 25, 1751(1751-01-25) (aged 75) Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Education	Harvard University
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Paul Dudley FRS (September 3, 1675 – January 25, 1751), Attorney-General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, was the son of colonial governor Joseph Dudley and grandson of one of the colony's founders, Thomas Dudley.

Dudley was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1675. After graduating from the Roxbury Latin School and then, at the age of 15, from Harvard in 1690, he studied law at the Temple in London, and became Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1718. He was associate justice of the province's highest court, the Superior Court of Judicature, from 1718 to 1745, and chief justice from 1745 until his death in January 1751.

He was a member of the Royal Society, to whose Transactions he contributed several valuable papers on the natural history of New England, as well as the founder of the Dudleian lectures on religion at Harvard University. Dudley was an investor in the Equivalent Lands. Along with his brother, William, he was the first proprietor and namesake of Dudley, Massachusetts. In 1705, Dudley was recorded as owning an enslaved boy, and he acquired another slave in 1745 named Guinea.

Dudley died in Roxbury, and is buried in the Eliot Burying Ground next to his father and grandfather.

References

^ Maier, Pauline (1985). "The Pope at Harvard: The Dudleian Lectures, Anti-Catholicism, and the Politics of Protestantism". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 97: 17. JSTOR 25080941.
History of western Massachusetts:
https://radcliffe-harvard-edu-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/3d37f30c-a266-4be8-bd4b-234dca08497f/AppendixI-ListofHumanBeingsEnslavedbyProminentHarvardAffiliates.pdf Archived May 9, 2022, at the Wayback Machine

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dudley, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 637.

v t e Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Chief justices (1692–present)	Stoughton Winthrop Addington Winthrop Samuel Sewall Lynde Sr. Dudley Stephen Sewall T. Hutchinson Lynde Jr. Oliver Adams Cushing Sargent Dana Parsons Sewall Parker Shaw Bigelow Chapman Gray Morton W. Field Holmes Knowlton Rugg F. Field Qua R. Wilkins Tauro Hennessey Liacos H. Wilkins Marshall Ireland Gants Budd
Provincial period Associate justices (1692–1775)	Danforth Richards Samuel Sewall Winthrop Cooke Walley Saffin Hathorne Leverett Curwin Lynde Sr. Thomas Davenport Quincy Dudley J. Cushing Sr. Remington Saltonstall Graves Stephen Sewall Hubbard Lynde Jr. J. Cushing Jr. Russell Oliver Trowbridge F. Hutchinson Ropes W. Cushing Brown
Revolutionary period Associate justices (1775–80)	Sargent Reed Paine Warren Foster Sullivan D. Sewall
Commonwealth period Associate justices (1780–present)	Sumner Dana N. Cushing Paine Dawes Bradbury Sewall Strong Thatcher Sedgwick Parker Jackson D. Dewey Putnam Wilde C. Dewey Lincoln M. Morton Sr. Hubbard Fletcher Forbes Metcalf Bigelow C. Cushing Merrick Thomas Hoar Chapman Gray Colt Foster Ames Wells M. Morton Jr. Devens Endicott Lord Soule W. Allen Devens W. Field C. Allen Colburn Holmes Gardner Knowlton J. Morton Barker Lathrop Hammond Loring Braley Sheldon Rugg DeCourcy Crosby Pierce Carroll Jenney Wait Sanderson F. Field Donahue Lummus Qua Cox Dolan Ronan Spalding R. Wilkins Williams Counihan Whittemore Cutter Kirk Jacob Spiegel Reardon Quirico Braucher Hennessey Kaplan H. Wilkins Liacos Abrams Lynch Nolan O'Connor Greaney Fried Marshall Ireland Cowin Spina Sosman Cordy Botsford Gants Duffly Lenk Hines Gaziano Lowy Budd Cypher Kafker Wendlandt Georges Jr. Dewar Wolohojian
Italics indicate individuals who were offered seats on the court, but refused

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