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JOHN WHITE
PRESTON.
Legal ability of a high order has been proven by Judge John W. Preston, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, both in the private practice of law and as a member of the judiciary. He has been engaged in legal activity in the state for a period of 25 years, and has assumed a prominent place among his colleagues.
Judge Preston is a native of the state of Tennessee, and was born in 1877 at Woodbury, Cannon County. After receiving his preparatory educational training in public schools he entered Burritt College, which conferred on him the degree of A. B., then engaged in the study of law and post-graduate study at Bethany College. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1897.
After engaging in the general practice of his profession at Woodbury for some years, Judge Preston moved to California. He practiced at San Francisco as a member of the firm of Preston & Preston until 1908, then served a term in the California House of Representatives, refusing re-election. From 1913 to 1918 he was United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, resigning to serve as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in war matters. He resigned from the latter position in 1919, and engaged in private practice until his election to the Supreme Court bench.
Judge Preston holds membership in the American Bar Association, State Bar of California and the Bar Association of San Francisco. He is also a member of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and the Claremont Country Club of Oakland, of which he is a Director. In 1902 he married Sara Rucker and they have two children, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Hatch and John White, Jr.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: "American Blue Book California Lawyers"
by H. James Boswell, Page 48, Produced by H. James Boswell,
1928.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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