William P. Lawlor

William Patrick Lawlor, known as William P. Lawlor, was a justice of the California Supreme Court in the 1920s.

Biography

Lawlor was born in New York City on September 17, 1854, the son of Patrick and Eliza Maher Lawlor. He was educated in New York and moved to California in 1877.[1]

A Democrat, he was a member of the Bohemian Club and The Family club, as well as one of the five co-founders of The Commonwealth Club. He lived at 545 Powell Street, San Francisco.[1]

Legal career

Lawlor studied law in the office of Rhodes and Barstow in San Francisco, California and was named judge of the Superior Court in that county in 1900.[1]

Lawlor dismissed indictments in the San Francisco trolley bribery cases against Patrick Calhoun, Tirey L. Ford, Thornwell Mullally, and William M. Abbott, officials of the United Railroads.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Who's Who on the Pacific Coast (1913), page 338
  2. ↑ Trolley Bribe Indictments Quashed, New York Times, Aug 18, 1911.


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