Background
Oliphant, A. Dayton was born on October 28, 1887 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Henry Duncan and Elizabeth Van de Veer (Dayton) Oliphant.
Oliphant, A. Dayton was born on October 28, 1887 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Henry Duncan and Elizabeth Van de Veer (Dayton) Oliphant.
Student Princeton, 1910, University of Pennsylvania, 1912. Doctor of Laws, Princeton, 1947.
Admitted to New Jersey bar as attorney, 1911, counsellor-at-law, 1916. Representative Mercer County in House of Assembly, 1915-1916, majority leader, 1917. Prosecutor of pleas, Mercer Company, 1918-1923.
Judge, circuit court of New Jersey, 1927-1945. Justice supreme court of New Jersey, 1945, The American Association For Justice, 1948-1957. Chancellor, State of New Jersey, 1946.
Member Mercer County, New Jersey and American bar associations, American Judicature Society, Society Colonial Wars, Society Cincinnati (honorary), Phi Delta Theta. Clubs: Tiger Inn, Nassau (Princeton).
Spouse Marguerite Broughton, June 21, 1924, Spring Lake, N.