Laurance Mastick Hyde (February 2, 1892 – 1978) was a chief justice of the

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. He was a Republican. Hyde was born in

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and served in the U.S. Army during

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. He was the justice and then the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. In 1949, Hyde co-founded and became the first president of the Conference of Chief Justices, which he helped create along with the

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and several private foundations at a meeting in St. Louis called by him, along with New Jersey Chief Justice

Arthur T. Vanderbilt Arthur T. Vanderbilt (July 7, 1888 – June 16, 1957) was an American judge and judicial reformer. He served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1948 to 1957, the first Chief Justice under the revamped New Jersey court system e ...

and Nebraska Chief Justice

Robert G. Simmons Robert Glenmore Simmons (December 25, 1891 – December 27, 1969) was a Nebraska Republican Party (United States), Republican politician. Simmons was born on December 25, 1891, near Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He attended Hastings College from 1909 t ...

. Some of his family members were also involved in politics. His father,

Ira B. Hyde Ira Barnes Hyde (January 18, 1838 – December 6, 1926) was a Representative from Missouri. He was a Republican. Hyde was born in Guilford, New York in 1838. He served in the army during the Civil War, and was a representative between 1873 and ...

, was a representative from Missouri, and his brother,

Arthur M. Hyde Arthur Mastick Hyde (July 12, 1877October 17, 1947) was an American Republican politician, who served as the 35th governor of Missouri from 1921 to 1925, and as the United States Secretary of Agriculture for President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to ...

, was a Governor of Missouri.

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