Background
Gideon, Valentine was born on January 11, 1859 in Iron County, Missouri, United States. Son of Calvin and Artemesia (Matkin) Gideon.
Gideon, Valentine was born on January 11, 1859 in Iron County, Missouri, United States. Son of Calvin and Artemesia (Matkin) Gideon.
Bachelor of Science, Carleton College, Farmington, Missouri, 1886. Student Saint Louis Law School, 1888-1889.
1 son, Reinhart L. Began practice at Ogden, Utah, 1890. Commissioner Supreme Court of Utah Ty., 1892-1896. Member Board of Education, Ogden, 1897-1900.
City attorney, Ogden, 1912-1915.
Appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah, March 1917, and elected to same position, November 1918, for term ending January 4, 1927, chief justice, 1925-1926. Reapptd. to Supreme Court by governor February 1927, to fill out term expiring January 1, 1929.
In practice of law, Ogden, Utah, since 1929. Retired 1945.
Member American and Utah State bar associations. Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner), K. of Philisophy.
Married Elizabeth L. Language, July 24, 1889.