Haydn Proctor was an American politician and judge who served as President of the New Jersey Senate and Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
13 Facts About Haydn Proctor
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Haydn Proctor attended Neptune High School, graduating in 1922, and Lafayette College, graduating in 1926.
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Haydn Proctor went on to Yale Law School, where he was associate editor of the Yale Law Journal, earning his law degree in 1929.
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Haydn Proctor served Monmouth County as a Republican member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1936 and 1937.
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Haydn Proctor was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1938 and was reelected in 1941 and 1944.
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Haydn Proctor was majority leader of the Senate in 1945 and Senate President in 1946, serving as Acting Governor in the absence of Governor Walter Evans Edge.
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Haydn Proctor was a delegate to the New Jersey Constitutional convention of 1947.
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Haydn Proctor became a Superior Court Judge in September 1948 and was reappointed by Governor Alfred E Driscoll in 1953.
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Haydn Proctor was confirmed immediately by the State Senate and began serving in October 1957, after the retirement of Justice A Dayton Oliphant.
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Haydn Proctor was reappointed by Governor Richard J Hughes in 1964.
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In 1973, Haydn Proctor left the bench after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.
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Haydn Proctor served on the Supreme Court's Committee on Opinions until he was 87.
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Haydn Proctor died in 1996 at the age of 93 at a hospital near his home in Lakewood Township.