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D30145-1
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- 1947-10-21 (Creation)
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This is believed to be a portrait of William Wallace Mount, former assistant U.S. attorney and Tacoma corporation counsel. By 1947, Mr. Mount was a partner with Wayne W. Keyes in the Keyes & Mount Law Office with offices in the Rust Building. Mr. Mount was born in Sprague, Washington, the son of State Supreme Court Justice Wallace Mount. He obtained his law degree from the University of Washington in 1916, served during WWI, and then became a King County deputy prosecutor. Mr. Mount was an assistant U.S. attorney in charge of the local office from 1921-1925. He was appointed by the Tacoma City Council to be the corporation counsel in 1930. Mr. Mount held membership in many civic and fraternal organizations including the board of governors of the Washington State Bar Assn., member of the American Bar Assn.'s House of Delegates, Tacoma Club, Tacoma Country & Golf Club, Rhodes American Legion Post. He passed away in Olympia on July 27, 1971, at the age of 80. (TNT 7-29-71, A-14-obituary)
Mount, William Wallace; Lawyers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Eyeglasses;