| LC control no. | n 85236953 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Beals, Walter B. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1876-07-21 |
| Death date | 1960-09-18 |
| Place of birth | Saint Paul (Minn.) |
| Place of death | Olympia (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Law Book collecting Manuscripts--Collections |
| Affiliation | University of Washington. School of Law |
| Profession or occupation | Judges |
| Found in | His The first German war crimes trial, 1985: t.p. (Chief Judge Walter B. Beals) NUCMC data from U. of Wash. Lib. for His collection, 1450-1946 (Walter Burgess Beals, 1876-1960) Bio. Gen., 1986 (Beals, Walter B., d. 1960) WWA, 1950-51 (Beals, Walter Burges, judge, b. St. Paul, Minn., 1876; m. Othilia Gertrude Carroll, 1904; judge, Supreme Court, Wash. State; designated presiding judge of Military Tribunal I, Nürmberg; Tribunal convened, Dec. 1946) Wikipedia, March 22, 2019: Walter B. Beals (Walter Burges Beals was an American judge who served on the Washington Supreme Court from 1928-1946 and again from 1947-1951. He served as the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1933-1935 and from 1945-1946. Born July 21, 1876, St. Paul, MInn.; died September 9, 1960, Olympia, Washington; nationality: American; residence: Seattle, Washington; alma mater: University of Washington School of Law, LLB; attained the rank of major in the Washington National Guard ; entered the U.S. Army in August 1917, serving in the judge advocate's division; saw action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive; became one of the founders of the American Legion; served in the U.S. Army during WW II. During his career, Beals served as Seattle Corporate Counsel (1923-1926), a King County Superior Court judge (1926-1928), a Washington State Supreme Court judge and Chief Justice. He retired in 1951. From 1946 to 1947, Beals was the Presiding Judge at the International Military Tribunal I in Nuremberg, Germany. Beals was an accomplished private collector of manuscripts and books) |
| Associated language | eng |
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