California State Officials Biographies 1911

WILLIAM HENRY BEATTY

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
WILLIAM HENRY BEATTY (Republican) was born at Monclova, Lucas County, Ohio, 
February 18, 1838; he lived for a time in Kentucky, and came from that State to 
California in 1853, arriving in Sacramento in March; he received his education 
in the common schools of Kentucky and California, finishing in the University of 
Virginia; was admitted to the bar in California in January, 1861; served as City 
Attorney of Austin, Nevada, in 1864; as a Judge of the District Court and as 
Judge of the Supreme Court of that State during the years from 1864 to 1881; in 
1888 he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of 
California, reelected in 1890, and again reelected in 1902.
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913