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HONORABLE
LOUIS W. MYERS
Louis W. Myers, attorney, was born I Lake Mills, Wisconsin, on September 6, 1872; son of Jesse Hall and Elizabeth Louise (Wescott) Myers.
Graduated from Lake Mills High School in 1889. Then received both his preparatory and legal education at University of Wisconsin, receiving the B.Litt. Degree in 1893 and the LL.B. degree in 1895. He was admitted to the Wisconsin and Illinois bars in 1895 and the California State Bar in 1898. Received honorary LL.D. degrees from University of California (1925) and University of Southern California (1926).
Mr. Myers was in practice of the law in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1894 to 1895, in association with the firm of Spooner, Sanborn & Kerr; then in practice in Chicago, Illinois, in association with Jesse A. and Henry R. Baldwin, 1895 to 1897. In 1898 he removed to Los Angeles, California, and was in practice there until 1913. Served as Judge of Superior Court, Los Angeles, from 1913 to 1923. Appointed Associate Justice of Supreme Court in 1923 for term ending in 1925 (Chief Justice, 1924-25). He then resumed private law practice in Los Angeles, where he is now member of the firm of O’Melveny & Myers.
Member of the Los Angeles Bar Association, State Bar of California, American Bar Association; California Club of Los Angeles, Sunset Club, Tuna Club and Peter Pan Woodland Club; Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Phi, Phi Beta, Kappa, and Sigma Iota Chi Fraternities. He is a Republican and a Protestant. His main diversion is fishing.
Mr. Myers married Blanche Brown on November 27, 1901, and they have two children: Alice Elizabeth Myers La Tourrette, born in 1904, and John Wescott, born in 1911.
Home: 269 South Lorraine Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
Offices: 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles 13, California.
Transcribed
8-16-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 72, C. W. Taylor Publ.,
Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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