Background
His father was Edward Lucius and his mother was Anne Crane (née Ridley). He was a descendant of Abraham Finch, a native of England, who came to America with John Withrop"s company in 1630 and settled in Massachusetts.
His father was Edward Lucius and his mother was Anne Crane (née Ridley). He was a descendant of Abraham Finch, a native of England, who came to America with John Withrop"s company in 1630 and settled in Massachusetts.
He graduated from Yale College in 1895, and from Columbia University School of Law in 1898.
On August 20, 1915, he was appointed by Governor Charles South. Whitman a justice of the New York Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Delany, and was re-elected in 1915 and 1929. From 1922 on, he sat on the Appellate Division, First Department, and in April 1931 was appointed Presiding Judge. In 1934, he ran on the Democratic ticket for the New York Court of Appeals, and was elected to a fourteen-year term, but resigned on April 30, 1943, to resume his private law practice.
Thomas Doctorate. Thacher was appointed to fill the vacancy temporarily.
Republican Party, Democratic Party.
He was a Republican member of the New York State Assembly (New York Company, 5th Doctorate) in 1902, 1903 and 1904.