Background
Thomas F. Daley Jr. was born in 1930. His professional life centered on Davenport, Iowa, a city on the Mississippi River that forms part of the Quad Cities region along the Iowa and Illinois border.
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Daley's legal career was associated with Betty, Neuman & McMahon, a Davenport law firm founded in 1907 by the brothers Harry and Frank Betty, who had graduated from the law schools of the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan respectively. The firm developed a general practice serving clients in Iowa and Illinois, and Daley worked there as a partner.
The firm's professional address in his record is the Union Arcade Building in downtown Davenport. The building opened in the 1910s as a bank, Union Savings Bank and Trust, and was designed to house a bank and other professional offices. In the years before its conversion into apartments, it was largely occupied by attorneys and accountants.
In 1976 the Iowa Legislature created the Iowa Court of Appeals to relieve a heavy backlog in the Iowa Supreme Court. Daley of Davenport was among the fifteen nominees announced that August for the new court. Governor Robert D. Ray appointed the first five judges in September 1976, and Daley was not among them. He died in 1979.
References
- Betty, Neuman & McMahon: Law Firm Profile Martindale-Hubbell firm profile describing the firm's founding in 1907 and its general practice in Iowa and Illinois. It lists Thomas F. Daley Jr. among the firm's Davenport attorneys, with the dates 1930 to 1979.
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History of the Iowa Court of Appeals
Drake Law Review article by Richard Doyle on the creation of the Iowa Court of Appeals in 1976. It names Thomas F. Daley Jr. of Davenport among the fifteen nominees announced in August 1976.
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