Background
Neptune, Robert Herndon was born on February 20, 1913 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Frank Samuel and Louise (Heidrich) Neptune.
Neptune, Robert Herndon was born on February 20, 1913 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Frank Samuel and Louise (Heidrich) Neptune.
Bachelor of Laws, University Oklahoma, 1937; graduate, Command and General Staff College, 1956; postgraduate, Industrial College Armed Forces, 1962-1963.
Secretary-assistant, Oklahoma Supreme Court, 1937-1938;
county attorney, Washington County, Oklahoma, 1939-1941;
war crimes prosecutor, United States Government, Manila and Tokyo, 1946-1949;
legislation attorney, Supreme Commander for Allied Powers, 1949-1950;
member, International Parole Board, 1948-1950;
general attorney, director enforcement, Economics Stabilization Agency, Oklahoma and Texas, 1951-1954;
practiced law, Bartlesville, 1954-1970;
judge, Oklahoma Court Appeals, Tulsa, 1970-1980;
special justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court, 1965;
member of faculty, Command and General Staff College, 1955-1956. Member, secretary City Bartlesville Community Relations Commission, 1965-1970. Member Oklahoma Advisory Committee on Constnl.
Revision, 1968-1970; president Bartlesville chapter American Field Service, 1969-1970.
Organizer, director Plaza National Bank, 1963-1980. Board directors County American Red Cross, 1946-1952. Board directors Young Men’s Christian Association, Bartlesville, 1954-1970, president, 1964-1966.
Member County Children's Services Board, 1946-1953. Advisory board Bartlesville Wesleyan College, 1970-1973. Served to lieutenant colonel 82d Airborne division Army of the United States, 1941-1946.
Colonel Reserve; Member American Trial Lawyers Association (judicial member), Law Science Academy, Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association (organizer 1967, director, vice president 1967-1969), Bartlesville Chamber of Commerce (chairman military affairs committee 1955-1970), Pi Kappa Alpha (district president 1946).
Married Mary Frances Cole, February 9, 1946. Children– Robert Cole, Mary Louise (Mistress John W. Kidd), Patricia (Mistress Andy Boyce), John Cole.