Proctor was born in 1903 in the Ocean Grove section of Neptune Township, New Jersey.
He served Monmouth County as a Republican member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1936 and 1937.
Governor Edge nominated him to a vacancy on the Circuit Court in December 1946, and he was sworn in after the end of his Senate term in March 1947.
[1] In August 1957, Governor Robert B. Meyner appointed Proctor to be an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
He was confirmed immediately by the State Senate and began serving in October 1957, after the retirement of Justice A. Dayton Oliphant.