Background
Thelen, Max was born on October 2, 1880 in Rising City, Nebraska, United States. Son of Edmund and Fanny J. M. (Bayrhoffer) Thelen.
Thelen, Max was born on October 2, 1880 in Rising City, Nebraska, United States. Son of Edmund and Fanny J. M. (Bayrhoffer) Thelen.
Bachelor of Laws, University of California, 1904, Doctor of Laws, 1966. Master of Arts Harvard, 1906.
With firm Olney & Olney, San Francisco, 1906-1907. Assistant attorney and attorney Western Pacific Railway Company, 1907-1911. Attorney California R. R. Commission, 1911-1915.
Member, 1912-1918, president, 1915-1918.
Lecturer International law University of California, 1907-1913. President National Association Railway Commissioners, 1916-1917, chairman special war committee, 1917-1918.
Chairman of Commission on petroleum California Council Defense, 1917-1918. Surveyor of contracts General Staff, War Department, 1918-1919, also chief purchase branch, chairman Superior Board of Contract Review, Army representative on Munitions Patent Board, chairman Advisory Board on Sales and Contract Termination, and assistant to director Purchase, Storage and Traffic division General Staff, United States Army, 1918-1919.
Director public service, United States Railroad Administration, 1919-1920, director Liquidation Claims, 1920.
Practiced in San Francisco, 1920-1972. Senior member firm Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, President Board of trustees South. H. Cowell Foundation.
Member American Law Institute, Academy Political Science, American Economics Association, American Society International Law, American Academy Political and Social Science, American Bar Association Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi. Clubs: Commonwealth (governor, past president), Bohemian.
Married Ora Emily Muir, May 1, 1913. Children: Ora, Henry Muir, Max, Dorothy Elise.