Background
Griggs, Thomas Newell was born on May 20, 1903 in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas Campbell and Christine (Newell) Griggs.
Griggs, Thomas Newell was born on May 20, 1903 in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas Campbell and Christine (Newell) Griggs.
Bachelor of Science, Carnegie Institute Technology, 1924. Juris Doctor, U. Pittsburgh, 1928.
Christine (Mistress Francis B. Nimick, Junior). Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1928. Partner Griggs, Moreland, Blair & Douglass, Pittsburgh President, director Island Properties, Inc.
Director member Executive Committee G.C. Murphy Company. Director Washington Oil Corporation, Morgan & Lindsey, Inc., Terry Farris Stores, Inc., M & L Equipment Company, M & L Realty Company, Morris Stores Corporation Chairman advising committee United States District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania.
Member Board of Governors Amen Corner. Member board director D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children. Member American (member first board Junior Bar Conference), Allegheny Company (president, chairman of the executive committee), Pennsylvania (governor) bar associations, American Judiciary Society, American Law Institute, Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh School Law Alumni Association (past president), Phi Kappa Psi, Theta Tau, Delta Theta Phi.
Clubs: Allegheny Country, Duquesne, Harvard-Yale-Princeton, Law, Tax (Pittsburgh), Edgeworth.
Married Anne Hathaway Kiskaddon, July 13, 1928.