Cosgrave, Walter J. (Walter John), 1910-1999
Biography
Walter John Cosgrave was born in Angels Camp, California, in 1910. He grew up in Calaveras County, where his father was sheriff, and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1922. He graduated from the University of California San Francisco in 1932. In 1935, he and Virginia B. Moriarty were married; they later had two children. He worked for an oil company, which transferred him to Oregon in 1940. He studied law in Oregon. He was an attorney with Maguire, Shields, Morrison, Bailey & Kester in Portland, Oregon from 1958 to 1980. He was a partner with Cosgrave, Vergeer & Kester. He died in 1999.
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Oral history interview with Walter J. Cosgrave
Oral history interview with Walter J. Cosgrave conducted by Timothy J. Coleman on November 26, 1993, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Cosgrave was an attorney in Portland, Oregon.