Albert Beliveau

Beliveau circa 1935

Albert Beliveau (March 27, 1887 – 1971) of Rumford, Maine was a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from March 3, 1954, to March 25, 1958. He was a Roman Catholic, and his son was Severin Beliveau.[1]

Born in Lewiston, Maine, to French-Canadian parents, Beliveau worked in local foundries and mills as a young man, before deciding to pursue a legal career.[2] In 1906, he quit his job at the mill and went to work for a local law office, where he remained for three years as an office worker, while studying law on his own time.[2] He received an LL.B. from the University of Maine School of Law in 1911.[3] Beliveau served in the United States Army in France during World War I, "where his French-Canadian heritage and legal experience was helpful in negotiations with the French, who were qualified to receive reparations for their war claims".[2]

In 1935, Governor Louis J. Brann appointed Beliveau to the Maine Superior Court.[2] He was then appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court by Governor Burton M. Cross, in 1954.

References

  1. ^ L'Hommedieu, Andrea (November 3, 2000). "Murray, Frank oral history interview". Bates College, SCARAB, Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d L'Heureux, Juliana (November 30, 2018). "Archiving the Franco-American biography of Albert Beliveau". Bangor Daily News.
  3. ^ Harrie B. Coe, Maine Biographies (1928), p. 299.
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Preceded by Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
1954–1958 		Succeeded by


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