Francis Wayland III (August 23, 1826 – January 9, 1904) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the and first dean of Yale Law School and 54th lieutenant governor of Connecticut.

Early life and education

Wayland was born in

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

, the son of Francis Wayland. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1846 and studied law at Harvard Law School.

Career

Wayland became probate judge in

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capita ...

in 1864 and was the 54th lieutenant governor of Connecticut in 1869–1870. In 1872, he became a professor in the

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

, of which he was

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from 1873 to 1903.History of YLS
Yale Law School homepage (21 April 2010).

References

1826 births 1904 deaths Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut Phillips Academy alumni Connecticut state court judges Brown University alumni Harvard Law School alumni Yale Law School faculty Deans of Yale Law School American legal scholars 19th-century American judges {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub