JUDGE PARKER DIES AFTER ILLNESS
Tacoma, Dec. 8. - (AP) - Judge Emmett Newton Parker, 80, chief justice of the Washington state supreme court during 1921 and 1922 and a member of the state's highest bench for thirty consecutive years, died in a hospital here today following a brief illness.
One of the most widely-known jurists in the Pacific Northwest, Judge Parker spent half a century on the bench. He retired from the state supreme court in 1933. Prior to going to Olympia, the jurist was head of the Tacoma municipal court, a Pierce county superior court judge and Tacoma city attorney.
Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, WA
Friday, December 8, 1939
JUDGE PARKER DIES AFTER ILLNESS
Tacoma, Dec. 8. - (AP) - Judge Emmett Newton Parker, 80, chief justice of the Washington state supreme court during 1921 and 1922 and a member of the state's highest bench for thirty consecutive years, died in a hospital here today following a brief illness.
One of the most widely-known jurists in the Pacific Northwest, Judge Parker spent half a century on the bench. He retired from the state supreme court in 1933. Prior to going to Olympia, the jurist was head of the Tacoma municipal court, a Pierce county superior court judge and Tacoma city attorney.
Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, WA
Friday, December 8, 1939
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