Гомер Труэтт Боун: Американ судьясының өмірі мен қызметі

American judge

Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana. He ran as a candidate for a variety of parties and was elected to the State House. In 1932, he was elected as a Democrat as United States Senator from Washington, and re elected to a second term. In 1944 Bone was appointed as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He served until his death, the last years in senior status.

Born on January 25, 1883, in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, Bone attended the public schools. He first worked for the United States postal service and in the accounting and credit department of a furniture company. Bone moved with his parents and family to Tacoma, Washington in 1899 after the state was admitted to the Union. He graduated from the Tacoma Law School (now defunct) in 1911.

Bone ran unsuccessfully for the Farmer–Labor Party as a candidate for the United States House of Representatives. Bone wrote the legislation that created the National Cancer Institute, one of the elements of the National Institutes of Health.

Bone was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 1, 1944, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which had been vacated by Judge Bert E. Haney. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 1, 1944, and received his commission the same day. He assumed senior status on January 1, 1956. His service terminated on March 11, 1970, due to his death in Tacoma. He had returned to Tacoma in 1968, after living in San Francisco, California since his appointment to the federal bench. He was cremated and his ashes interred in Oakwood Cemetery.

While in senior status, Bone engaged in private practice in San Francisco from 1956 to 1968.