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D9519-2
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- 1940-03-12 (Creation)
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Sepia toned portrait of United States Senator Homer T. Bone, Democrat from Washington State, at a desk in his Tacoma home. Mr. Bone served in the U.S. Senate from 1933-1944. He was appointed a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (nomination by Franklin Delano Roosevelt) to replace a seat vacated by Bert E. Haney later in 1944; he assumed senior status in 1956. Originally a native of Franklin, Indiana, Mr. Bone graduated from the Tacoma Law School in 1911, served as special deputy prosecuting attorney in 1912 and as corporation counsel for the Port of Tacoma from 1918-1932. After assumption of senior status, he resumed the practice of law in San Francisco and sat on the bench occasionally until 1968. Returning to Tacoma, he passed away on March 11, 1970; his ashes are interred in Oakwood Cemetery. ALBUM 4.
Bone, Homer Truett, 1883-1970; Legislators--Washington--1940-1950;