Background
POMEROY, Charles William was born on June 2, 1866 in Jackson Company, Kansas. Son of John Franklin and Martha Jane (Blake) Pomeroy.
POMEROY, Charles William was born on June 2, 1866 in Jackson Company, Kansas. Son of John Franklin and Martha Jane (Blake) Pomeroy.
Country School, Jackson Company, Kansas. Campbell University, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts, 1887. Law, University of Kansas., Lawrence, Kansas., one year.
Admitted to Bar, Kansas., 1889, Territory of Montana, October 1889. Practiced law, Great Falls, Montana, 1889-1895. Elected Member, School Board, 1894, chmn.
Appointed first Judge, eleventh District, by Governor., 1895-1897. Appointed Deputy Company Attorney, 1910. City Attorney. Kalispell, 1913-1921.
Member, Board of Trustees, Flathead Company High School. 17, Pres, of Board, 1915. Elected Judge, eleventh dist., Flathead and Lincoln Cos., 1920, re-elected 1924 and.
Appointed Chief Commissioner, Supreme Court, March-July 1922. Called to serve on Supreme Court in place of a Justice four times. As Chief Commissioner and Acting Justice, participated in 61 cases and wrote sixteen opinions.
Author of law giving state same number of peremptory challenges of jurors as defendant in criminal trials and instrumental in its passage by the Legislature in 1925. The first attempt in the Legislature 1923 failed. Author of law authorizing municipalities to acquire land for airports passed by Legislature, 1927.
A comparison of Flathead Company District Court records for seven years, 1914-1920 with 1921-1927, time expiring between filing of information and trial was reduced from 126 days to 49 days and costs to litigants in trial of jury cases reduced 38% affirmed by Supreme Court in 72% of cases appealed. Member: American Bar Association (1906). National. Economic League.
Club: Kalispell Kiwanis (President).
Spouse Estella Granger, June 18, 1889, Phillipsburg, Kansas.