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Dwight Loomis was a descendant of Joseph Loomis of Braintree, England, who settled in the Connecticut colony, at Windsor, about 1639, and the second son of Mary (Pinneo) and Elam Loomis, a prosperous farmer. He was born on July 27, 1821 in the small town of Columbia, in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States.
Loomis received a common-school education and attended the academies at Monson, Massachusetts, and at Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1844 he began to read law with John H. Brockway of Ellington and, in 1846, entered the law department of Yale College. The next year he was admitted to the bar.
For a short time Loomis taught in the Connecticut towns of Andover, Columbia, Lebanon, and Hebron. In 1847 he began the law practice in Rockville. In 1851 he was a member of the lower house of the state legislature. Five years later he was a delegate to the Philadelphia convention that nominated Frémont as Republican candidate for the presidency. In 1857 he was a member of the state Senate. From 1859 to 1863 he was a representative in Congress. During his first session, on June 16, 1860, he made a long speech, in which he upheld the rights of the House of Representatives against a supposed attempt on the part of the President to influence legislation.
In 1864 he became judge of the superior court of Connecticut, was reelected in 1872, but did not finish his second term, for, in 1875, he was elected associate judge of the supreme court of errors, on which he continued to serve with distinction until he reached the age of retirement in 1891. After he left the bench he moved to Hartford, where he devoted himself to various professional pursuits; from 1891 to 1893 he was an instructor in the Yale Law School; in 1895 he edited, with J. Gilbert Calhoun, The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut; he acted as arbitrator in such disputes as those between the state, Yale University, and Storrs Agricultural College; and he served as a member of the state board of mediation and arbitration. Most of his attention, however, he gave to his duties as state referee, to which position the General Assembly appointed him in 1891. He was returning home from a hearing at Torrington, when he died suddenly near Waterbury.
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Loomis was a member of the Republican Party. He advocated his favorite principles such as opposition to a strong executive, economy in public expenditures, and the desirability of a high tariff. He supported the Union against secession.
In November 1848 Loomis married Mary E. Bill, who died in 1864 and, in May 1866, he married Jane E. Kendall.
