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perfect example of how victorians lived. he had been a judge jurisprudence your court judge for over 25 years and he grew up in the home from the time he was 4 year s old until he died in 2003. even though he was born in oregon in 1914, his father was a chemical engineer that met his mother here in redding, she was teaching school there and they married in the parlor of this home. we have her his mother s wedding gown and they they moved to oregon where the judge s father had relatives and lived until during world war i, his father was a chemical engineer serving in a chemical warfare plant in ohio and he died in the flu pendemic and at the time the judge came with his mother, his grandfather had passed away. he lived with his grandmother, mother and aunt ella and those three ladies just spoiled him. but this home was purchased by his grandfather, built in 1895, victorian home and his grandfather purchased it in 1899 after he won the sheriff election and found that he h
perfect example of how victorians lived. he had been a judge, a superior court judge for over 25 years, but he grew up in this home from the time he was four years old until he died in 2003. even though he was born in oregon in 1914, his father was a chemical engineer that met his mother here in redding. he worked at the compromise and she was teaching school there, and they married in the partner of this home. we have his mothers waiting down. and wedding gown. they moved to oregon where come his father had relatives and lived until, during world war i his father was a chemical engineer serving in a chemical warfare plant in ohio, and he died in the flu pandemic. and at that time the judge, or the judge came with his mother back to his home. his grandfather had already passed away, so he lived with his grandmother, his mother and his aunt. those three ladies just spoiled him. but this home was purchased by his grandfather, it was built in 1895, a victorian home. and his gr
book came. and then later on, i became a fish and game warden myself. and then i continued writing stories about my generation of fish and wildlife so the book is called the game warden s son. being with my dad during those years when he was a game warden was like having a storybook childhood. i did things that most kids would dream of. when he started out, he was on what they call marine patrol and his duty was patrolling the channel the california channel islands which are fantastic. and they re anywhere from like 26 miles across the sea like the song says or clear out way out in the ocean. so i got to go on these excursions or these patrols out into the out into the channel islands and see see things that mofmente kids would only dream of. there was one particular chapter i wrote about in the book. i called it a trip to the islands where we went out and we took these two national park scientists from washington, d.c. out to santa barbara island and an at that bar
new york, it says in your bio you are the only jurist in the federal courts with a phd in political science. how can that be? it just happens, i guess. out going to graduate school in political science at harvard. , worked withhd james wilson and daniel patrick moynihan and richard neustadt, and then went to law school at yale. i am originally from new york. i am a product of the public schools in new york. so, going to those schools outside columbia as an undergraduate, going to those schools were really my first exposure outside of new york and got those degrees and then spent really a career before the bench trying to look at the workings of our institutions. and studied relations between the branches of government at the brookings institution and at georgetown. senator daniel patrick moynihan, who had been my professor at harvard, and i was his teaching assistant, he .as on my oral exam because of him, i became a judge. ofwe have got some videotape you from 1993 testi