About Warren W. Tolman
Lived 1861 – 1940 (aged 78–79). Warren W. Tolman was an American politician.
Warren W. Tolman (December 8, 1861 – May 15, 1940) was a justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1918 to 1937.
Born in Illinois, Tolman received a law degree from Northwestern University in 1888. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the supreme court in 1906 and 1910.
Tolman was chief justice from 1925 to 1926, and from 1931 to 1932. Tolman resigned from the court in 1937 due to failing health.
Tolman and his wife Maude had one daughter and one son. Tolman died at his home in Spokane at the age of 79.
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American judge (1861–1940)
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