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Webster Thayer
American judge
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Webster Thayer (July 7, 1857 – April 18, 1933) was a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, best known as the trial judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.
Background
Thayer was born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, on July 7, 1857.
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He attended Worcester Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1880 where he captained the baseball and football teams. He learned law through an apprenticeship rather than by attending law school and was admitted to the bar in 1882.
He enjoyed a modest career in local politics, first as a Democrat and later as a Republican. He was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts in Dedham in 1917.[1]
In 1920, Thayer gave a speech to new American citizens decrying Bolshevism and anarchism's threat to American institutions.
He supported the suppression of radical speech and rebuked a jury that failed to re