Mason Ladd

Background

Ladd, Mason was born on January 9, 1898 in Sheldon, Iowa, United States. Son of Scott Mason and Emma (Cromer) Ladd.

Education

AB, Grinnell College, 1920. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Grinnell College, 1954. Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1921.

Juris Doctor, University Iowa, 1923. Doctor of Juridical Science, Harvard University, 1935.

Career

Practice law, Des Moines, 1923-1929; assistant county attorney, Polk County, Iowa., 1927-1929; partner, Ladd & Ladd, 1923-1929; lecturer in law, Drake U., 1925-1929; professor of law, State University of Iowa, 1929-1939; dean, professor of law, State University of Iowa, from 1939; member board Control of Athletics, State University of Iowa teaching fellow, Harvard Law School. Member of advisory committee Federal Judicial Conference. Commissioner National Conference Uniform State Laws;chairman Federal Legal Civil Svc.

Examination Committee for Iowa. Adviser on evidenceAm. Law Institute.

Achievements

• Bar: Iowa, 1923.

Politics

God seeks to transform relationship with and between people. If politics is about how we choose to live together and to treat one another, there is surely a place for discerning the activity of God in politics.

Views

Language of offensive nature with regard to race, ethnicity or nationality does not indicate the value of each individual and contradicts the teaching of Jesus Christ.

Membership

Member S.A.T.C., World War I. Colonel, Judge Advisory General Department, with Legal Division Surgeon General Office, United States Army. Director of division European Theatre of Operations, World World War World War II.

Member American Bar Association (member commission on research American Bar Association Foundation, chairman special commission on military justide), Iowa Bar Association (award of merit), Montana State Bar Association (honorary life), Order of Coif, Kiwanis (president 1941), Triangle Club, Masons (32 degree), Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa (honorary).

Connections

Married Esther Victoria Swanson, September 11, 1924. Children: Carolyn Joan, Mary Esther, Margaret Annual.

Father:

Scott Mason Ladd

Mother:

Emma (Cromer) Ladd

Spouse:

Esther Victoria Swanson

child:

Mary Esther Ladd

child:

Margaret Annual Ladd

child:

Carolyn Joan Ladd