Background
Woodward, Hugh Beistle was born on April 29, 1885 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Americus Hodge and Ella Jane (Beistle) Woodward.
Woodward, Hugh Beistle was born on April 29, 1885 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Americus Hodge and Ella Jane (Beistle) Woodward.
Student Pennsylvania State University, 1904-1906. Bachelor of Philosophy, Dickinson College, 1908, Master of Arts, 1910, Bachelor of Laws, 1910, Doctor of Laws, 1959. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University New Mexico, 1963.
Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1911, Colorado bar, 1914, New Mexico bar, 1915, Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1923, also 8th Circuit, 10th Circuit cts. appeals. Practiced law, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, 1911-1913, Greeley, Colorado, 1914, Clayton, New Mexico, 1915-1929. General practice, Albuquerque, 1933-1951, limited, 1951-1968.
District attorney 8th Judicial District New Mexico, 1920-1924. Lieutenant governor New Mexico, 1929. United States district attorney New Mexico, 1929-1933.
Special assistant United State Attorneys general, 1942-1946. President Southwest Finance, Inc., 1931-1957, New Mexico Credit Corporation, 1941-1968, Southwest Loan Company, 1954-1957, Southwestern Construction Company.
Member National Advisory Committee on Multiple Use of National Forests, 1960-1964. Member board education, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, 1911-1913, president of the board education, Clayton, New Mexico, 1917-1922. Member New Mexico Game Commission, 1937-1943, Albuquerque Plan Commission, 1948-1957.
Member American, New Mexico (bar commissioner 8th Judicial District 1928-1931), Albuquerque bar associations, New Mexico Wildlife and Conservation Association (president emeritus), Audubon Society, Wilderness Society, Izaak Walton League, American Forestry Association, Albuquerque Lawyers. Mason.; Club: Ten Don (Albuquerque).
Spouse Helen E. Kisr.er, June, 1911, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.