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Marmaduke, Don H. (Don Hall), 1926-2019

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1926 - 2019

Biography

Don Hall Marmaduke was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1926. He attended Yale University and Harvard Law School, graduating with a law degree in 1951. While in law school, he and Mary Ellen Dandy were married; they later had three children. After a year working as a law clerk in Boston, Massachusetts, Marmaduke moved his family to Oregon in 1952, where he accepted a job at the Portland law firm now known as Stoel Rives. He left Stoel Rives in 1971 to form the firm Marmaduke, Aschenbrenner, Merten & Saltveit, and in 1974, he joined Tonkon Torp LLP. He also taught classes at Northwestern College of Law. Marmaduke and Mary Ellen Dandy were divorced after 22 years of marriage, and he later married Carol Cordes, with whom he had one child. He died in 2019.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Oral history interview with Don H. Marmaduke

 Collection
Identifier: SR1283
Abstract

Oral history interview with Don H. Marmaduke conducted by Brian Booth on December 6, 2002, as part of the Volunteer Attorneys series of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Marmaduke was an attorney in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 2002 December 6