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FRANK S.
RICHARDS
Frank S.
Richards, lawyer, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on November 30, 1890; son
of F. D. and Anna (Sells).
He attended private schools in New
York and New Jersey; studied law in the offices of Richards, Richards &
Ferry, Salt Lake City, Utah, and attended Columbia University Law School, New
York City; admitted to the bar of Utah in October, 1912, and bar of California
in 1924; also to the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Richards began the practice of
law at Salt lake City, Utah, in association with the firm of Richards &
Richards; served as assistant county attorney of Salt Lake County, Utah, and
later as district attorney, Third Judicial District, Utah; removed to San
Francisco, California where he became associated with the firm of Dunn, Brobeck & Phleger; he then
removed to Oakland, California, where he has been a member of the following
firms: Chapman, Trefethen, Richards & Chapman;
McCarthy, Richards & Carlson; Donahue, Richards & Hamlin; and present
firm of Donahue, Richards, Rowell & Gallagher.
Mr. Richards specializes in trial
work and matters before the Public Utilities Commission. He is general counsel
for Key System Transit Lines, general counsel and director of Lucky Stores,
Inc., general counsel and director of Pacific Turf Club, Inc., attorney for
Oakland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, director of Crippled
Children’s Society of Alameda County, American Cancer Society (Alameda County
Branch), Cerebral Palsy Children’s Society, director and secretary of Golden
Gate Fields Foundation.
He is a member of the Alameda County
Bar Association, California State Bar Association and American Bar Association;
Claremont Country Club, Athenian-Nile Club, Elks Club; Piedmont Blue Lodge;
Scottish Rite Bodies of Oakland; Aahmes Temple; and
the California Historical Society.
On December 12, 1914, he married
Madeleine Cummings (deceased) in New York City; one son, Joseph Tanner. His
second marriage was with Natalie Van Order on August 5, 1949, in Piedmont,
California.
Residence: 260 Sea View Avenue,
Piedmont, California.
Offices:
1500 Bank of America Building, Oakland, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 341, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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