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Laurance Mastick Hyde (February 2 1892–1978) was a chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. He was a Republican.Hyde was born in Princeton Missouri and served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was the justice and then the chief justice of the Missouri supreme court.In 1949 Hyde co-founded and became the first president of the Conference of Chief Justices which he helped create along with the Council of State Governments and several private foundations at a meeting in St.