Arthur Loomis Sanborn

Arthur Loomis Sanborn
The Honorable; Arthur Loomis Sanborn
United States District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin
	In office; January 9, 1905 – October 18, 1920
Appointed by	Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	Romanzo Bunn
Succeeded by	Claude Luse
Personal details
Born	Arthur Loomis Sanborn; November 17, 1850; Brasher Falls, New York
Died	October 18, 1920 (aged 69); Madison, Wisconsin
Resting place	Forest Hill Cemetery; Madison, Wisconsin
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Alice E. Golder
Children	John Bell Sanborn; (b. 1876; died 1933); Katharine (Blake); (b. 1881; died 1945); Eugene Hiram Sanborn; (b. 1884; died 1944); Phillip G. Sanborn; (b. 1893; died 1937);
Mother	Harriett Blount
Father	Simpson Sanborn
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin Law School (LL.B.)
Profession	lawyer

Arthur Loomis Sanborn (November 17, 1850 – October 18, 1920) was an American lawyer and judge. He was United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, he served from 1905 until his death in 1920.

Education and career

Born in Brasher Falls, New York, Sanborn moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857, settling in Lake Geneva. His father died when he was 11 years old, leaving the family in a difficult financial situation. To help the family, he went to work in a wool mill. He was self-educated, and, when the family moved to Elkhorn, the county seat, in 1869, he was able to obtain employment as a clerk in the office of the Register of Deeds. He began to study law and was elected Register of Deeds for Walworth County, serving from 1875 to 1879. In 1879 he entered the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he received his Bachelor of Laws the following year.[1]

He formed a law partnership with former Mayor Silas U. Pinney in Madison, where he would practice law for the next 25 years. Their partnership would endure until Mr. Pinney's election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1891. The firm Pinney & Sanborn was involved in many important railroad cases in the state.[1] During this period, Sanborn was also employed as a professor of law on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, and served on the state board of bar examiners.[2][3][4] Sanborn was the Republican candidate for Mayor of Madison in 1890, but was defeated by city attorney Robert McKee Bashford.[5] In 1893, Sanborn formed a new partnership, Spooner, Sanborn & Spooner, with former U.S. Senator John Coit Spooner.[1]

Federal judicial service

On January 6, 1905, Sanborn was nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin vacated by Judge Romanzo Bunn. Sanborn was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 9, 1905, and received his commission the same day. Sanborn served in that capacity until his death on October 18, 1920.[3]

Personal life and family

Arthur Sanborn married Alice E. Golder, of Elkhorn, on October 15, 1874. They had four children together.[4]

Judge Sanborn is descended from Lieutenant John Sanborn, an early settler at the Province of New Hampshire.[1]

Electoral history

Madison Mayor (1890)

Madison, Wisconsin, Mayoral Election, 1890[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
General Election, April 1, 1890
	Democratic	Robert McKee Bashford	1,454	56.71%
	Republican	Arthur L. Sanborn	1,110	43.29%
Plurality			344	13.42%
Total votes			2,564	100.0%
	Democratic hold

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References

Alkens, Andrew Jackson; Proctor, Lewis A., eds. (1897). Men of Progress, Wisconsin (PDF). The Evening Wisconsin Company.
"Sanborn, Arthur Loomis 1850 - 1920". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
Arthur Loomis Sanborn at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. (1900). The University of Wisconsin: Its History and Its Alumni. Madison, Wisconsin: J. N. Purcell. pp. 624–625.
"The Municipal Election". Wisconsin State Journal. March 31, 1890. Retrieved May 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
"Bashford gains the mayoralty by greatly reduced majority". Wisconsin State Journal. April 2, 1890. Retrieved May 4, 2020.

External links

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Preceded by Romanzo Bunn	United States District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin 1905–1920	Succeeded by Claude Luse

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[progress-1] Alkens, Andrew Jackson; Proctor, Lewis A., eds. (1897). Men of Progress, Wisconsin (PDF). The Evening Wisconsin Company.

[2] "Sanborn, Arthur Loomis 1850 - 1920". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved May 3, 2020.

[auto-3] Arthur Loomis Sanborn at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

[uw-4] Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. (1900). The University of Wisconsin: Its History and Its Alumni. Madison, Wisconsin: J. N. Purcell. pp. 624–625.

[5] "The Municipal Election". Wisconsin State Journal. March 31, 1890. Retrieved May 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

[6] "Bashford gains the mayoralty by greatly reduced majority". Wisconsin State Journal. April 2, 1890. Retrieved May 4, 2020.