John S. Fine
| John S. Fine | |
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| 35th Governor of Pennsylvania | |
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In office January 16, 1951 – January 18, 1955 |
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| Lieutenant | Lloyd Wood |
| Preceded by | James Duff |
| Succeeded by | George Leader |
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| Born |
John Sydney Fine April 10, 1893 Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | May 21, 1978 (aged 85) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Helene Pennebecker Morgan (December 5, 1939–April 23, 1951; her death) |
| Children | Two sons |
| Alma mater | Dickinson School of Law |
| Profession | Attorney, Judge |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
John Sydney Fine (April 10, 1893 – May 21, 1978) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A Republican, he served as the 35th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1951 to 1955.
Fine was born in Newport Township, Pennsylvania, one of nine children of Jacob W. and Margaret (née Croop) Fine. In 1895, the family moved to nearby Nanticoke, where Fine received his early education at local public schools. He milked cows and plowed fields on a coal company farm as a young boy, and later reported on local community news for the Wilkes-Barre Record as a teenager.
After graduating from Nanticoke High School as valedictorian in 1911, Fine studied at the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, earning his law degree in 1914. He was admitted to practice law in Luzerne County (1914) and before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (1915), opening his own practice in Wilkes-Barre. From 1916 to 1920, he served as Republican chairman of the Fourth Legislative District of Luzerne County.
During World War I, Fine served with the 23rd U.S. Army Engineers, reaching the rank of sergeant. In 1919, while stationed in Ireland, he took postgraduate studies at Trinity College of the University of Dublin. Following his military service, he resumed his law practice and became a partner in the firm Coughlin and Fine. He served as secretary of the Republican County Committee from 1920 to 1922, and as chairman of the Luzerne County Republican Committee from 1922 to 1923. On January 3, 1927, Governor Gifford Pinchot appointed Fine to fill a vacancy in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County. He was elected to a regular ten-year term in November of that year, being re-elected to another term in 1939. He served as a delegate to the 1936 Republican National Convention. In 1939, he married Helene Pennebecker Morgan, to whom he remained married until her death in 1950; the couple had two sons.
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