Laurance Mastick Hyde (February 2, 1892 – 1978) was a chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court.

Hyde was born in Princeton, Missouri and served in the U.S. Army during World War I.

[1] 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. Louis called by him, along with New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt and Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons.

His father, Ira B. Hyde, was a representative from Missouri, and his brother, Arthur M. Hyde, was a Governor of Missouri.

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