Homer Bone
Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana.[2] Initially belonging to the Socialist Party of America, Bone ran as an unsuccessful candidate for prosecuting attorney and Mayor of Tacoma.[2] While in the Washington House of Representatives, Bone advocated for county governments to have the ability to form public utility districts, a political battle that was finally won when voters approved it as an initiative he helped spearhead.[5][1] With the deepening of the Great Depression and changing political attitudes among voters, Bone joined the Democratic Party.[3] Bone was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 1, 1944, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which had been vacated by Judge Bert E.