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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">James Chaffee Loomis</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">April 1807<br><a href="Windsor%2C_Connecticut" title="Windsor, Connecticut">Windsor, Connecticut</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 16, 1877<span style="display:none">(1877-09-16)</span> (aged&nbsp;70)<br><a href="South_Egremont%2C_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="South Egremont, Massachusetts">South Egremont, Massachusetts</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="Mountain_Grove_Cemetery%2C_Bridgeport" title="Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport">Mountain Grove Cemetery</a><br><a href="Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport, Connecticut</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1298804929">
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<div class="marriage-display-inline"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Eliza C. Mitchell</div>
<div class="marriage-line-margin2px">​</div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;">​</div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr>&nbsp;1833; died&nbsp;1840)<wbr>​</div><br>
<div class="marriage-display-inline"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Mary B. Sherman</div> <div style="display:inline-block;">​</div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr>&nbsp;1844)<wbr>​</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Osbert_Burr_Loomis" title="Osbert Burr Loomis">Osbert Burr Loomis</a> (brother)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale College</a><br><a href="University_of_Virginia_School_of_Law" title="University of Virginia School of Law">University of Virginia School of Law</a><br><a href="Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">
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<p><b>James Chaffee Loomis</b> (April 1807 – September 16, 1877) was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut. He served in the <a href="Connecticut_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut Senate">Connecticut Senate</a> and <a href="Connecticut_House_of_Representatives" title="Connecticut House of Representatives">Connecticut House of Representatives</a>. He was mayor of <a href="Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport, Connecticut</a>, in 1843.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div>

<p>James Chaffee Loomis was born on April 24<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 29, 1807,<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="Windsor%2C_Connecticut" title="Windsor, Connecticut">Windsor, Connecticut</a>, to Abigail S. (née Chaffee) and James Loomis.<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His brother was <a href="Osbert_Burr_Loomis" title="Osbert Burr Loomis">Osbert Burr Loomis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended a grammar school in <a href="Hartford%2C_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated from <a href="Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale College</a> in 1828. He then studied law at the <a href="University_of_Virginia_School_of_Law" title="University of Virginia School of Law">University of Virginia School of Law</a>. After a year, he returned to Connecticut and studied at <a href="Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a> and then studied under <a href="Clark_Bissell" title="Clark Bissell">Clark Bissell</a> in <a href="Norwalk%2C_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a>. He was admitted to the bar of <a href="Fairfield_County%2C_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield County</a> in 1832.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Loomis began practicing law with <a href="Samuel_B._Sherwood" title="Samuel B. Sherwood">Samuel B. Sherwood</a> of <a href="Saugatuck%2C_Connecticut" title="Saugatuck, Connecticut">Saugatuck</a> (later <a href="Westport%2C_Connecticut" title="Westport, Connecticut">Westport</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1837 to 1838, he was an <a href="Ex_officio_member" title="Ex officio member">ex-officio</a> member of Yale College.<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1840, he moved to <a href="Bridgeport%2C_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport</a> to practice law.<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1848, he started a law practice with George W. Warner.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became city attorney of Bridgeport and served as its mayor in 1843.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Loomis was elected to the <a href="Connecticut_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut Senate">Connecticut Senate</a>, representing the <a href="Connecticut's_10th_State_Senate_district" title="Connecticut's 10th State Senate district">10th district</a>, around 1835. He served as a member of the <a href="Connecticut_House_of_Representatives" title="Connecticut House of Representatives">Connecticut House of Representatives</a> in 1856 and 1860.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit2_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="1861_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1861 Connecticut gubernatorial election">1861</a> and <a href="1862_Connecticut_gubernatorial_election" title="1862 Connecticut gubernatorial election">1862</a>, he was an unsuccessful <a href="Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> candidate for governor of Connecticut and was defeated by <a href="William_A._Buckingham" title="William A. Buckingham">William A. Buckingham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit2_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around 1870, he retired from active practice.<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Loomis was president of the Congregational Society from 1847 to around 1860.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of his death, he was president of the Fairfield County Bar Association, president of Bridgeport's Board of Education, president of <a href="Mountain_Grove_Cemetery%2C_Bridgeport" title="Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport">Mountain Grove Cemetery</a> and president of the Bridgeport Library Association.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was director of Bridgeport's City National Bank and trustee of the People's Saving Bank.<sup id="cite_ref-bridgeport_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bridgeport-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div>
<p>Loomis married Eliza C. Mitchell of <a href="New_Haven%2C_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> on May 1, 1833. They had one son. His wife died in 1840. He married Mary B. Sherman, daughter of Ira Sherman, of Bridgeport on April 24, 1844. They had one son and daughter, including James Sherman.<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had a home on Golden Hill in Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Loomis traveled on August 18, 1877, to <a href="South_Egremont%2C_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="South Egremont, Massachusetts">South Egremont, Massachusetts</a>. He fell ill with a <a href="Gastric_fever" class="mw-redirect" title="Gastric fever">gastric fever</a> two days later and died there on September 16.<sup id="cite_ref-yale_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yale-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit2_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2></div>
<p>In 1874, the Connecticut legislature passed a law naming Loomis and his brothers and sister as trustees of <a href="Loomis_Chaffee_School" title="Loomis Chaffee School">Loomis Institute</a>, an institute for "the free education of children and youth between 12 and 20 years of age" in Windsor.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following his death, Loomis donated a portion of his approximately <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$500,000</span> estate to the school.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111072375">James Chaffee Loomis</a> at <a href="Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a></li></ul>
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