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FRANKLIN
C. STARK
Franklin
C. Stark, lawyer, was born in Unityville, South
Dakota on April 16, 1915. The son of Fred H. and Catherine (Culver) Stark.
Graduated from Dakota Wesleyan
University (Mitchell, South Dakota) with the B.A. degree, then studied law at
Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago, Illinois) where he received his
J.D. degree; admitted to the Illinois bar in December 1940 and the California
bar in June 1946.
Mr. Stark began law practice in
association with the firm of Sidley, McPherson, Austin & Burgess, Chicago,
Illinois; then with the firm of Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley, Oakland,
California, and is now a partner in the firm of Stark & Champlin,
Oakland. Served as editor in chief, Illinois Law Review, 1939 to 1940. During
World War II was a member of the General Counsel’s Office in the office of
Price Administration, Washington, D.C. (1941-1942) and then on active duty with
the U. S. Navy (1942-1945).
Member of the American Bar
Association, State Bar of California, Alameda County Bar Association; Order of
the Coif, Pi Alpha Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Delta; A.F. and A.M.; and
B.P.O.E.; lecturer on Commercial Law, School of Business, University of
California, Berkeley, Calif., since 1946; Methodist. Republican. LCDR, United
States Naval Reserve.
Mr. Stark married Alice C. Churchill
on September 16, 1941 and they have three children, Margaret C., Wallace C.,
and Judith C.
Home: 4252 Coolidge Avenue, Oakland, California.
Office: Financial Center Building, Oakland 12,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 329, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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