Walter Van Dyke
| Walter Van Dyke | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California | |
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In office January 4, 1899 – December 25, 1905 |
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| Appointed by | Elected |
| Preceded by | William Cary Van Fleet |
| Succeeded by | M. C. Sloss |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 8, 1823 Tyre, Seneca County, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 1905 (aged 82) East Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Rowena Cooper (m. 1854) |
| Children | Edwin Cooper Van Dyke |
Walter Van Dyke (October 8, 1823 – December 25, 1905) was a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and a justice of the California Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Van Dyke was born on October 8, 1823, in Tyre, Seneca County, New York. He studied law in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1846 to 1848 and crossed the plains in 1849, remaining a short time in Los Angeles and then moving to Northern California. In 1853, he settled in Humboldt County, and was elected to the California State Assembly. He practiced law and was district attorney there in 1854. In 1861, he was elected to the California State Senate, serving in the 1862 and 1863 sessions, where he helped organize the state's Republican Party. He edited the Humboldt Times until 1863, then moved to San Francisco. In 1868, he was an alternate elector to the Republican Party national convention for President Ulysses S. Grant. From 1874 to 1877, Van Dyke was United States attorney for California, and was elected a delegate to the California Constitutional Convention in 1878.
In 1884, Van Dyke moved to Los Angeles, and practiced in the firm of Wells, Van Dyke & Lee. In 1888, he was elected a Los Angeles County Superior Court in Department Four, and in 1894 was reelected to a six-year term, serving until December 28, 1899. In June 1889, his name was unsuccessfully put forward to fill a vacancy on the California Supreme Court.
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