Background
His father was appointed to the Idaho Supreme Court in November 1914, and the family relocated from Pocatello to Boise.
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His father was appointed to the Idaho Supreme Court in November 1914, and the family relocated from Pocatello to Boise.
Hamer Budge attended the public schools in Boise and the College of Idaho in Caldwell. He transferred to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and graduated in 1933, then attended the University of Idaho College of Law in Moscow.
He was a five-term congressman from Idaho and later chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, Budge was the youngest of eight children of a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, Alfred Budge (1868–1951) and Ella Hoge Budge (1875–1970, m1892). Justice Budge retired from the state"s highest court 34 years later in December 1948, at age 80.
Budge graduated in 1936, passed the bar, and went into private practice in Boise.
When Republican man John Sanborn chose to pursue the United States. Senate seat rather than a third term in 1950, it left the 2nd district seat open. He served in the House for ten years.
An attempt at a sixth term came up short in 1960, with a loss to 31-year-old Democrat Ralph Harding of Blackfoot. Source:
When his fifth congressional term ended in 1961, Budge became a judge in the Third Judicial District of Idaho in Boise.
In 1964, he was appointed to the United States. Securities and Exchange Commission (Securities and Exchange Commission) by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Budge was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1969 until he resigned on January 2, 1971. Budge then served as the president of a mutual funds group in Minneapolis until he retired in 1978. He died in 2003 at age 92 in Arizona and was buried in Idaho at Cloverdale Cemetery in west Boise.
He was a member of the state legislature from 1939 through 1941 and in 1949 and served in the United States. Navy during World World War II, from 1942 through 1945, leaving as a lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Elks, Eagles, American Bar Association, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
