Homer Bone

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Homer Bone

Homer Truett Bone (born January 25, 1883 in Franklin , Indiana , †  March 11, 1970 in Tacoma , Washington ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in the US Senate .

Originally from Indiana, Homer Bone moved his family to Tacoma in 1899. He attended a law school there and was admitted to the bar in 1911. As a lawyer, he then specialized in labor law . In 1912, he became assistant special attorney in Pierce County ; from 1918 to 1932 he was employed as a lawyer with the Port of Tacoma Administration. During this time he also worked for the local electricity company Tacoma City Light .

Politically, he initially joined the Socialist Party , whose candidate he unsuccessfully applied for the offices of public prosecutor and mayor of Tacoma. After he had to leave the party because of his "too moderate" political positions, he joined the Farmer Labor Party , for which he - again in vain - tried to get a seat in the US House of Representatives . In 1922 he was elected to the Washington House of Representatives. Another change of party to the Republicans was followed by another unsuccessful candidacy for the US House of Representatives.

He ultimately found his political home with the Democrats , for whom he sat in the US Senate from 1933. After being re-elected, he remained there until his resignation on November 13, 1944. He represented predominantly progressive positions and was isolationist on the question of American participation in World War II . Bone helped build the Bonneville Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam ; he also introduced the bill to create the National Cancer Institute in parliament .

Homer Bone stepped down from the Senate to accept an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , the federal appeals court for the ninth district, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt . There he succeeded the late Bert E. Haney and held office until January 1, 1956. He was officially a senior member of the court after that, but was practically retired. He worked as a freelance lawyer in San Francisco until 1968 .

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SURNAME Bone, Homer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bone, Homer Truett (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Franklin , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1970
Place of death Tacoma , Washington