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Biography

PATRICK ANTHONY MCCARRAN was born in Reno, Nev., August 8, 1876; attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1901; engaged in farming and in stock raising; member of the State legislature in 1903; represented Nevada in an irrigation congress in 1903; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and practiced in Tonopah and Goldfield, Nev.; district attorney of Nye County, Nev., 1907-1909; resumed the practice of law in Reno, Nev., in 1909; associate justice of the supreme court of Nevada 1913-1917 and chief justice in 1917 and 1918; member of Nevada Board of Pardons 1913-1919; member of Nevada State Board of Parole Commissioners 1913-1918; chairman of the Nevada State Board of Bar Examiners 1919-1932; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932; reelected in 1938, 1944, and again in 1950 and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Hawthorne, Nev., September 28, 1954; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Nev.

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