Draft:Valentine Gideon

Valentine Gideon (January 11, 1859 – February 11, 1951)^[1]^[2] was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1917 to 1929, briefly interrupted in 1927, and was chief justice from 1925 to 1927.^[3]

Gideon was appointed to a newly created seat when the court was expanded to five members.^[3]

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In 1889, Gideon married Elizabeth C. Lang, with whom he had one son. Elizabeth died five months before Gideon.^[1] Gideon died in a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 92.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Judge Gideon Dies, Early Attorney For City of Ogden", The Ogden Standard-Examiner (February 12, 1951), p. 14.
^ Noble Warrum, Utah Since Statehood, Historical and Biographical (S. J. Clark publishing, 1919).
^ ^a ^b Stephen W. Julien, "The Utah State Supreme Court and Its Justices, 1896-1976", 44 Utah Hist. Q. 267, 280-82 (1976).

Political offices
Preceded by Newly created seat	Justice of the Utah Supreme Court 1917–1929	Succeeded by Elias Hansen

Category:1859 births Category:1951 deaths Category:Justices of the Utah Supreme Court

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[Ogden_obit-1] "Judge Gideon Dies, Early Attorney For City of Ogden", The Ogden Standard-Examiner (February 12, 1951), p. 14.

[book-2] Noble Warrum, Utah Since Statehood, Historical and Biographical (S. J. Clark publishing, 1919).

[UHQ-3] Stephen W. Julien, "The Utah State Supreme Court and Its Justices, 1896-1976", 44 Utah Hist. Q. 267, 280-82 (1976).

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