Beals, Walter B.
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Name (Latin)
Beals, Walter B.
Date of birth
1876-07-21
Date of death
1960-09-18
Place of birth
Saint Paul (Minn.)
Associated country
United States
Place of residence/headquarters
Washington (State)
Field of activity
Book collecting
Law
Manuscripts--Collections
Occupation
Judges
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, March 22, 2019:Walter B. Beals (Walter Burges Beals was an American judge who served on the Washington Supreme Court from 1928-1946 and again from 1947-1951. He served as the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1933-1935 and from 1945-1946. Born July 21, 1876, St. Paul, MInn.; died September 9, 1960, Olympia, Washington; nationality: American; residence: Seattle, Washington; alma mater: University of Washington School of Law, LLB; attained the rank of major in the Washington National Guard ; entered the U.S. Army in August 1917, serving in the judge advocate's division; saw action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive; became one of the founders of the American Legion; served in the U.S. Army during WW II. During his career, Beals served as Seattle Corporate Counsel (1923-1926), a King County Superior Court judge (1926-1928), a Washington State Supreme Court judge and Chief Justice. He retired in 1951. From 1946 to 1947, Beals was the Presiding Judge at the International Military Tribunal I in Nuremberg, Germany. Beals was an accomplished private collector of manuscripts and books)
- His The first German war crimes trial, 1985:t.p. (Chief Judge Walter B. Beals)
- NUCMC data from U. of Wash. Lib. for His collection, 1450-1946(Walter Burgess Beals, 1876-1960)
- Bio. Gen., 1986(Beals, Walter B., d. 1960)
- WWA, 1950-51(Beals, Walter Burges, judge, b. St. Paul, Minn., 1876; m. Othilia Gertrude Carroll, 1904; judge, Supreme Court, Wash. State; designated presiding judge of Military Tribunal I, Nürmberg; Tribunal convened, Dec. 1946)