Homer Bone
Homer Truett Bone ( born January 25, 1883 in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, † March 11, 1970 in Tacoma, Washington) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in the U.S. Senate.
A native of Indiana Homer Bone and his family moved to Tacoma in 1899. He attended a Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1911. As a lawyer, he specialized then to labor. In 1912 he became deputy special prosecutor in Pierce County; 1918 to 1932 he was employed as an attorney with the Port Authority of Tacoma. During this time he also worked for the local power company Tacoma City Light.
Politically, he joined first the Socialist Party to, as their candidate, he unsuccessfully ran for the office of the prosecutor and the mayor of Tacoma. After he had had to leave the party because of his " moderate " political positions, he joined the Farmer-Labor Party at, for which he is - again unsuccessfully - tried to get a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1922 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Washington. A new change of party to the Republicans was followed by another unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.
His political home he was ultimately for the Democrats, for which he sat from 1933 in the U.S. Senate. After a re-election, he remained there until his resignation on November 13, 1944. He represented there mostly progressive positions and was on the issue of American involvement in World War II set isolationist. Bone supported the construction of the Bonneville Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam; Moreover, he brought in Parliament a draft law for the creation of the National Cancer Institute.
Homer Bone resigned his Senate seat to follow the appeal to the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth District Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He went there to succeed the late Bert E. Haney and exercised his office until January 1, 1956. After that he belonged to the Court as a senior official yet, but was practically already retired. As an independent lawyer, he was still active until 1968, in San Francisco.