11 Facts About Thomas Tongue

Thomas H Tongue III was an American jurist in the state of Oregon.

Tongue was the grandson of US Representative Thomas H Tongue, who was an emigrant from England in the early days of the state of Oregon.

Justice Tongue was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, on February 12,1912, to the Tongue legal family.

Thomas Tongue began college in 1930 and graduated with his undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon in 1934.

Thomas Tongue then attended the School of Law at the University of Oregon, graduating with a JD in 1937.

Thomas Tongue began his career working in the New Deal government for the Labor Department, including arguing cases in front of the US Supreme Court.

Thomas Tongue was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by Governor Tom McCall in 1969 to replace Alfred Goodwin who had resigned.

Thomas Tongue was then elected to a full six-year term in 1970 and re-elected in 1976.

Justice Thomas Tongue then resigned from the bench February 7,1982.

Thomas Tongue was president of the Multnomah Bar Association from 1976 to 1977.

Thomas H Tongue III died May 31,1994, in Hillsboro, Oregon and is buried at Hillsboro's Pioneer Cemetery.