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A Bay State-born centenarian World War II vet is accepted to mark his 105th altogether with a anniversary today at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs hospital in Brockton.
George N. Leighton, who was built-in in New Bedford a anniversary afterwards the Red Sox won the World Series in Fenway Park’s countdown 1912 season, will be abutting by ancestors and accompany for the anniversary birthday. The son of Cape Verdean immigrants, Leighton accelerating with ceremoniousness from Howard University in 1940. He advised law at Harvard, but the studies were disconnected by the beginning of World War II.
Leighton served in the Pacific amphitheater with the Army’s 93rd Infantry Division and accelerating from Harvard Law afterwards advancing home in 1946. He went on to accessible a law convenance in Chicago and was adopted a ambit cloister adjudicator in 1964. Leighton was appointed to the Illinois Cloister of Appeals, and after to a atom on the federal bank with the U.S. District Cloister for the Northern District of Illinois.
Leighton, who will about-face 105 Sunday, retired from the bank in 1987 at the age of 75 and alternate to clandestine convenance until 2011, back he retired at 99.
