James McCrea Haughey

Background

Haughey, James McCrea was born on July 8, 1914 in Courtland, Kansas, United States. Son of Leo Eugene and Elizabeth (Stephens) Haughey.

Education

Student, Deep Springs College, Dyer, California, 1931. Bachelor of Laws, University Kansas, Lawrence, 1939.

Career

Worked at Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, P.L.L.P. (Billings, Montana) specializing in General Civil Practice. Litigation, Insurance, Workers Compensation, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Malpractice, Bankruptcy, Financing Transactions, Administrative, Immigration, Antitrust, Banking, Corporate, Commercial, Real Estate, Public Utilities, Securities, Tax, Municipal and Tax Exempt Bonds, Entertainment, Health Care, Agricultural, Estate Planning, Probate, Pension and Profit Sharing, Natural Resources including Oil and Gas, Mining, Environmental and Water Law, Employment Law, Indian Law and Intellectual Property. Admitted to the bar, 1939, Kansas.

1943, Montana.

Phi Delta Phi.

Author: "Problems in Examination of Titles to United States Oil and Gas Leases," First Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, 1955. "Severance of the Minerals and the Severity of Attendant Problems," Western Coal Development Institute, 1973.

"The Arts and the Lawyer," Kansas Law Review, Summer, 1980. Company-Author: "Legislative Protection of the Surface Owner in the Surface Mining of Coal Reserved by the United States," 22 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 145, 1976.

Member: Montana Legislature, 1961-1965.

Senate, 1967-1971. Senate Minority Leader, 1969-1971. Trustee, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 1955—.

President, 1957-1958.

Member: Yellowstone County (President, 1960-1961) and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Montana. American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

American Judicature Society.

Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich is the largest firm in Montana and its adjoining states. lieutenant provides a full range of legal services throughout the region, offering expertise in nearly all areas of law.

Since its founding in 1895, the firm has continued in its tradition of exercising high ethical standards and leadership in community and professional affairs The firm maintains four fully staffed offices, one in Billings, the largest city in Montana, one in Helena, the capital of Montana, one in Williston, North Dakota and one in Kalispell, Montana.

Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich is the reviser of the Martindale Hubbell Law Digest.

Please refer to the firm"s complete profile therein.

Achievements

• James McCrea Haughey has been listed as a notable Lawyer, artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 1957-1958, trustee, 1955–2007. President Montana Institute Arts Foundation, 1965-1967. President Yellowstone Art Center Foundation, 1969-1971, trustee, 1964-1981.

Member Montana House of Representatives, 1960-1964, Montana Senate, 1966-1970, minority leader, 1969-1970. Fellow Montana Institute Arts (Permanent Collection award 1960), American Artists Professional League. Member American Bar Association, American College Real Estate Lawyers, Yellowstone County Bar Association (president 1960-1961), University Kansas Law Society (board governors 1989-1992), American Watercolor Society (Midwest vice president 1978-1982), Northwest Watercolor Society (life), Midwest Watercolor Society, Kansas Watercolor Society (honorary), Montana Watercolor Society (honorary), Yellowstone Art Museum (President's award service to Arts, 2005, Philanthropist of Year), Phi Delta Theta, Phi Delta Phi.

Connections

Married Katherine Hurd, September 8, 1938. Children: Katherine (Mistress Lester B. Loo), Bruce Stephens, John Caldwell.

Father:

Leo Eugene Haughey

Mother:

Elizabeth (Stephens) Haughey

Spouse:

Katherine Hurd

child:

Bruce Stephens Haughey

child:

Katherine Haughey (Mistress Lester B. Loo)

child:

John Caldwell Haughey