Homer Bone

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Homer Truett Bone

United States Senator from Washington
In office March 4, 1933 – November 13, 1944
Preceded by	Elijah S. Grammer
Succeeded by	Warren Magnuson
Personal details
Born	(1883-01-25)January 25, 1883 Franklin, Indiana
Died	March 11, 1970(1970-03-11) (aged 87) Tacoma, Washington
Political party	Democratic

Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was a United States federal judge and Senator from Washington.

Born in Franklin, Indiana, Bone and his family moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1899. Bone attended Tacoma Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1911. He specialized in labor law, and served as an assistant special prosecutor for Pierce County in 1912, as the Corporate Counsel for the Port of Tacoma from 1918 to 1932, and as an attorney for Tacoma City Light.^[1] In 1918, he married Blanche Slye. Bone ran unsuccessfully for prosecuting attorney and Mayor of Tacoma as a Socialist, and for the Third District Congressional seat as a Farmer-Labor candidate. In 1922 Bone served in the Washington State House, where he advocated for the ability of local government to form public utility districts. In 1928 Bone again ran unsuccessfully for Congress, this time as a Republican.^[2]

In 1932, Bone finally won election to the United States Senate, this time as a Democrat, and served from 1933-1944.^[3] He continued his advocacy for public owned power, and other progressive causes. He supported creation of the Bonneville Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam. Regarding World War II, Bone was an isolationist. Bone, along with senator Matthew Neely and representative Warren Magnuson,^[4] wrote the legislation which created the National Cancer Institute.^[5]

On April 1, 1944, Bone was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by Bert E. Haney. Bone 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. He returned to the private practice of law, in San Francisco, California, from 1956 to 1968, and died in Tacoma in 1970.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Homer Bone at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
↑ University of Washington Library Special Collection
↑ Congressional biography
↑ Mukherjee, Siddhartha (16 November 2010). The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Simon and Schuster. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-4391-0795-9. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
↑ Bone, Homer Truett (1883-1970) at HistoryLink.org

United States Senate
Preceded by Elijah S. Grammer	United States Senator (Class 3) from Washington 1933–1944	Succeeded by Warren Magnuson

v t e United States Senators from Washington

Class 1	Allen Wilson Foster Piles Poindexter Dill Schwellenbach Wallgren Mitchell Cain Jackson Evans Gorton Cantwell

Class 3	Squire Turner Ankeny Jones Grammer Bone Magnuson Gorton Adams Murray

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 40906682 LCCN: n87891349

Persondata
Name	Bone, Homer Truett
Alternative names
Short description	United States federal judge
Date of birth	January 25, 1883
Place of birth	Franklin, Indiana
Date of death	March 11, 1970
Place of death	Tacoma, Washington

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