Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas Judge George J. Benson Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

JUDGE GEORGE J. BENSON

(Transcribed by Lori DeWinkler)

In December 1934, Hon. A. T. Ayres, is judge of the first division, Hon. George J. Benson, judge of the second division; R. C. Woodward, county attorney; C. Glenn Morris, (county attorney-elect) assistant county attorney; Charles G. Smith, clerk; F. H. Steiger, deputy clerk; A. L. Snodgrass, sheriff; B. P. Harrison, under-sheriff; A. Hall, court reporter first division; E. Hall, court reporter second division; C. T. Marcum and Charles Young, bailiffs. The last bar docket shows these attorneys listed in El Dorado: C. L. Aikman, F. S. Allen, George J. Benson, L. J. Bond, F. H. Cron, W. N. Calkins, W. H. Coutts, Jr., E. W. Grant, K. M. Geddes, Robert H. Hazlett, C. L. Harris, C. L. King, F. J. Leasure, B. R. Leydig, F. E. Lichlyter, V. P. Mooney, C. Glenn Morris, R. T. McCluggage, Walter F. McGinnis, Jr., J. B. McKay, J. M. Pleasant, R. B. Ralston, Robert S. Scott, Stanley Taylor, H. Pauline Woodward, R. C. Woodward and Clem Silvers. At Augusta are R. A. Cox, M. A. Marten and F. R. Vieux. At present, Charles W. Steiger, a member of the local bar, is the attorney for the Corporation Commission of Kansas. R. T. McCluggage, of El Dorado, is now the first assistant United States Attorney for the District of Kansas.