Bertram Stetson Varian Sr. (May 12, 1872 – June 8, 1963) was a justice of the Idaho Supreme Court from 1929 to 1933.
Career
editBorn in Unionville, Pershing County, Nevada,[1] Varian attended the University of Michigan, and was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1895, and the Idaho State Bar in 1899. He served as a judge for the 7th Judicial District of Idaho from 1919 to 1929, when he was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho, to fill his unfinished term of Herman H. Taylor who had recently died.[2] Varian served until 1933,[1][3] when he was he defeated for reelection by former Justice William McKendree Morgan, who was returned to the court as part of an anti-incumbent wave spurred by the Great Depression.[4]
Personal life and death
editVarian had a son, Bertram S. Varian Jr., who was a naval aviator in the United States Navy during World War II, and who was killed in the Battle of Midway and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.[5]
Varian died in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, and was interred at Cloverdale Memorial Park, in Boise.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (1958), Vol. 1, p. 1450.
- ^ "Paris Post Newspaper Archives, Oct 13, 1932, p. 1". NewspaperArchive.com. 13 October 1932. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "Justice faces unusual election challenge", The Spokesman-Review (April 24, 2000), p. 5.
- ^ "Valor awards for Bertram Stetson Varian, Jr". Military Times Hall of Valor. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ^ "Oakland Tribune Newspaper Archives, Jun 9, 1963, p. 117". NewspaperArchive.com. 9 June 1963. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
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