Background
Senior, Raymond Victor Bottomly, was born on July 16, 1885 in Cederville, Kansas, United States. Son of Byron Shelley and Isabelle (Pilcher) B.
Senior, Raymond Victor Bottomly, was born on July 16, 1885 in Cederville, Kansas, United States. Son of Byron Shelley and Isabelle (Pilcher) B.
Bachelor of Science, Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas. Bachelor of Arts, University of Kansas, 1915, Bachelor of Laws, 1915.
Admitted to Kansas bar, 1915, Montana bar, 1915. Admitted to practice in Supreme Court of the United States, 1936, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 9th district, 1943. Commissioner for Harlem Irrigation District, Blaine County, Montana, 1915-1922.
Attorney for five irrigation districts, Blaine Company, 1917-1922.
Attorney Blaine County, 1922-1925. State counsel Montana Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1933-1941.
Assistant attorney general of Montana, 1941-1942, first assistant attorney general, 1942, attorney general, 1942-1949. Elected The American Association Foreign Justice Montana Supreme Court 1949-1955, 1955-1961.
Served in World War I. President North. Montana Development Association, 1920, Theodore Roosevelt International Highway Association for Montana, 1921. Member State Board of Education, 1942-1950. Member at large, National Council Boy Scouts of America.
Member American Legion (past commander Chinook, Montana, Post), Veterans of World War I of United States of America, Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Nu, Phi Delta Phi.
Mason (32°, Shriner). Club: Lions (past president) (Chinook, Montana).
Married Mouriel M. Heath, December 10, 1916. Children: Raymond Victor, Heath, Forbes, Eugene, Richard, Mouriel, James, Douglas, Elizabeth.