California State Officials Biographies 1911

HENRY ALEXANDER MELVIN

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 
HENRY ALEXANDER MELVIN (Republican) was born at Springfield, Illinois, September 
28, 1865. He came to California in 1875, and in 1889 graduated from the 
University of California with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy; in 1892 he 
graduated from the Hastings College of the Law with the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws. His home is at Oakland, and he has served as Justice of the Peace of 
Brooklyn Township, Deputy District Attorney General of California. In 1901 he 
was appointed to fill a vacancy on the superior bench of Alameda County, and in 
1902 was elected for the full term of six years beginning January, 1903, but 
resigned to accept an appointment, on September 28, 1908, as Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court, to take the place of T. B. McFarland, deceased, until the 
next general election. On November 3, 1908, he was elected to fill the unexpired 
term of Justice McFarland, ending January, 1911. On November 8, 1910, was 
reelected for the full term of twelve years from January, 1911.

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