Thomas Littlefield Marble (1876 - 1952)
Born at Auburn (ME); died at Concord (NH).
Lawyer, jurist.
Portrait by Richard Maury, n.d..
Presented to the State, date unknown.

Thomas Marble was a graduate of Bowdoin College (ME) while also serving (1899 - 1901) as principal of Gorham (NH) High School. He went on to Harvard Law School, and he was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1904.

Between 1905/17 the law firm of Rich & Marble was successful at Berlin (NH). In 1917 Marble was named to New Hampshire Superior Court; he served on the Court until 1924, when he was named an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Marble served a term (1926) as president of the New Hampshire Bar Association.

Marble was a member of the State Supreme Court 1924/46, serving as Chief Justice 1943/6. In 1933, with the repeal of the Twenty-First Amendment and the end of Prohibition, Marble chaired a commission which drafted the New Hampshire liquor law.

Reference: Manchester Union Leader, October 25, 1952 (obituary).