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. Herbert was born in Cleveland, Ohio. During World War I Herbert served in the Army Air Service. While flying with

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in France, he was wounded in action 8 August 1918. He was awarded the British Distinguished Flying Cross & American

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.National Archives AIR 27/527/1 After the war, Herbert returned to Ohio, where he graduated from

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in 1919,The Supreme Court of Ohio and The Ohio Judicial System – Thomas James Herbert
/ref> and practiced law. He served as State Attorney General from 1939 to 1945. In the Republican landslide year of 1946, Herbert defeated incumbent governor

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. Lausche defeated Herbert in the latter's bid for re-election two years later. Herbert served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1957 until 1963. He suffered a stroke March 21, 1961, and decided not to run for re-election. Herbert married Jeanette Judson of Cleveland on April 30, 1919, and they had four children. Jeanette died December 30, 1945. Herbert remarried, while Governor, Mildred Helen Stevenson of

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on January 3, 1948. They had one daughter. Mildred died in 1962. Herbert died October 26, 1974, at age 79, after years of illness. His son

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was Ohio State Treasurer for two terms, 1963 to 1971 and an unsuccessful candidate for

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in 1970.

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