Waldo Colburn

{{Short description|American judge}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Waldo Colburn.png

| name = Waldo Colburn

| caption =

| state = Massachusetts

| state_senate = Massachusetts

| district = 2nd Norfolk

| term_start = 1879

| term_end = 1880

| predecessor =

| successor =

| order2 =

| office2 = Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives{{Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1884}}

| district2 =

| term_start2 = 1854

| term_end2 = 1854

| predecessor2 =

| successor2 =

| order3 =

| office3 = Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

| appointed3 = John Davis Long

| term_start3 = November 10, 1882

| term_end3 = September 26, 1885

| predecessor3 = William Crowninshield Endicott

| successor3 = William Sewell Gardner

| order4 =

| office4 = Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court

| appointed4 = William Gaston

| district4 =

| term_start4 = May 27, 1875

| term_end4 = November 10, 1882

| predecessor4 = Otis Phillips Lord

| successor4 =

| party = Whig, Democratic{{Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 13 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1884}}

| birth_name =

| birth_date = November 13, 1824{{Citation |last = Hamilton | first = Duane | title = History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol I.| page = 12 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & Co. | location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1884}}

| birth_place = Dedham, Massachusetts

| death_date = September 26, 1885 (aged 60){{Citation | title = Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Vol 140.| page = 604 | publisher = Little, Brown, and Company | location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1886}}

| death_place = Dedham, Massachusetts

| death_cause =

| alma_mater = Phillips Andover

| occupation = Attorney

| residence = Dedham, Massachusetts

| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Elizabeth C. Sampson|1851|1852}}|{{marriage|Mary Ellis Gay|1852|1859|end=died}},}}

| children = 2

| partner =

| signature = Waldo Colburn signature.png

| website =

}}

Waldo Colburn (November 13, 1824 – September 26, 1885) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Colburn was originally a member of the Whig party and after that party dissolved he became a Democrat. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Colburn, a selectman and signer of the Dedham Covenant.{{cite book|last=Rand|first=John Clark |title=One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89|url=https://archive.org/details/oneathousandase00randgoog|access-date=29 November 2019|year=1890|publisher=First national publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/oneathousandase00randgoog/page/n152 135]}}