Background
Bone, Homer Truett was born on January 25, 1883 in Franklin, Indiana, United States. Son of James Milton and Margaret Jane Demaree Bone.
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Bone, Homer Truett was born on January 25, 1883 in Franklin, Indiana, United States. Son of James Milton and Margaret Jane Demaree Bone.
Bone attended Tacoma Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1911.
Born in Franklin, Indiana, Bone and his family moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1899. He specialized in labor law, and served as an assistant special prosecutor for Pierce County in 1912, as the Corporate Counsel for the Portuguese of Tacoma from 1918 to 1932, and as an attorney for Tacoma City Light. In 1922 Bone served in the Washington State House, where he advocated for the ability of local government to form public utility districts.
In 1928 Bone again ran unsuccessfully for Congress, this time as a Republican.
He continued his advocacy for public owned power, and other progressive causes. He supported creation of the Bonneville Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam.
Regarding World World War II, Bone was an isolationist. Bone, along with senator Matthew Neely and representative Warren Magnuson, wrote the legislation which created the National Cancer Institute.
On April 1, 1944, Bone was nominated by President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by Bert East. Haney.
Bone was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 1, 1944, and received his commission the same day. He assumed senior status on January 1, 1956. He returned to the private practice of law, in San Francisco, California, from 1956 to 1968, and died in Tacoma in 1970.
Bone ran unsuccessfully for prosecuting attorney and Mayor of Tacoma as a Socialist, and for the Third District Congressional seat as a Farmer-Labor candidate.
Member Order of the Coif, Gamma Eta Gamma.
Married Blanche Sly, January 25, 1919.