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JOHN V. MORRIS
John V. Morris, an able attorney of
San Pedro, was born in Portland, Oregon, June 23, 1895. He acquired his early education at the Denny
School in Seattle, Washington, and the Queen Anne High School of that city, while
his more advanced intellectual training was received at the University of Santa
Clara in California and the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1918 he attended the United States
Shipping Board School of Navigation and the following year was a student at
Marshall’s Academy of Navigation in Seattle.
In preparation for the practice of law he entered School of Law of the
University of Southern California, from which he was graduated with the degree
of LL. B. in 1920. He was admitted to
practice in California in March, 1921, at Phoenix, Arizona, in January, 1926,
and before the United States Treasury Department in March, 1928. Mr. Morris acted as attorney for the United
States Bureau of Prohibition in 1926 and 1927 and next was made deputy city
attorney in charge of the prosecutor’s office for San Pedro and
Wilmington. He resigned the latter
position to engage in the practice of his chosen profession in San Pedro, where
he now maintains an office and is accorded a gratifying and steadily growing
clientele, for his ability in the work of the courts is widely recognized.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 187, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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