{{Short description|American judge (1879–1947)}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = The Honorable |name = Adam Beeler |honorific_suffix = |image = Adam Beeler.jpg |caption = Adam Beeler in 1927 |order = |office = Justice of the Washington Supreme Court |nominator = |appointer = |term_start = {{Start date|1930|01|1}} |term_end = {{End date|1932|01|01}} |president = |succeeding = |predecessor = Walter M. French |successor = William J. Steinert<ref name="penny">{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Phil|title=A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle, WA|isbn=0295803266|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zInClETstzoC&dq=William+J.+Steinert&pg=PA89|accessdate=June 9, 2017}}</ref> |office1 = Member of the Washington House of Representatives for the 36th District |nominator1 = |appointer1 = |term_start1 = {{Start date|1922|01|01}} |term_end1 = {{End date|1928|01|01}} |president1 = |succeeding1 = |predecessor1 = |successor1 = |birth_date = {{birth date|1879|10|11}} |birth_place = Bluffington, Wells County, Indiana, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1947|03|25|1879|10|11}} |death_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S. |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |birth_name = Adam Madison Beeler |party = Republican |spouse = Florence Leona Scott |relations = |children = 3 Madison, Elizabeth and Virgina |alma_mater = Indiana University (BA)<BR>George Washington University (JD) |occupation = Lawyer, politician, judge |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |awards = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }}
'''Adam Madison Beeler''' (October 11, 1879 – March 25, 1947) was a justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1930 until 1932. Beeler served as a King County Superior Court Judge between April 6, 1928, and September 30, 1930, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Roland H. Hartley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/DigitalObject/View/F1B2F0DB7E942C08023890F7097AE3BF|title=Adam Beeler, Oaths of Office, 1854-2014, Office of the Secretary of State, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives|date=September 30, 1930|accessdate=March 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312064103/http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/DigitalObject/View/F1B2F0DB7E942C08023890F7097AE3BF|archive-date=March 12, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Born in Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, to Peter and Elizabeth Beeler, he attended the Indiana University, where he met his future wife, Florence Leona Scott (November 30, 1887 – January 12, 1960), and was graduated in 1903.<ref name="delta">{{cite book|title=The seventh general catalogue of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity|date=1917|publisher=Delta Tau Delta Fraternity|location=New York, NY|pages=286, 566|url=https://archive.org/stream/seventhgeneralca00delt/seventhgeneralca00delt_djvu.txt|accessdate=June 9, 2017}}</ref> He then attended George Washington University Law School.<ref name="delta"/> He was married to Florence Scott on April 8, 1909, in Seattle,<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalogue for 1908-1909 of the University of Washington|date=1909|publisher=E.L. Boardman|location=Olympia, WA|page=73|url=https://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/archive/GenCat1908-10v1.pdf|accessdate=June 9, 2017}}</ref> and they had a son and two daughters: Madison Scott Beeler, Elizabeth Beller, and Virginia Jean Beeler.<ref>[http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/5AB2259FFCCE2890B03C0502B645ADA4 Washington Digital Archives]</ref><ref>[http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/F36C6423D40A640E7E72AB386616CFCE Washington Digital Archives 2]</ref>
Beeler had served in the Washington House of Representatives<ref>{{cite news|title=Adam Beeler in Race for State Senator's Toga|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1922-07-20/ed-1/seq-15/#date1=1918&index=7&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Adam+Beeler&proxdistance=5&state=Washington&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=adam+beeler&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|accessdate=June 9, 2017|work=The Seattle star|date=July 20, 1922|page=15}}</ref> from 1922 until 1928. In 1932, Beeler resigned his court seat to run for United States Senate, and after losing the primary he was considered in November 1932 as a replacement to Wesley Livsey Jones, following his death.<ref name="penny"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Political Gossip|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=869&dat=19320819&id=bJNaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hkoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6086,3092457|accessdate=June 9, 2017|work=The Ellensburgh Capital|date=August 19, 1932}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fclipping_II&CISOPTR=35835&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=0&DMOLDSCALE=8.21468&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=%2520Adam&DMTHUMB=1&REC=1&DMROTATE=0&x=14&y=3|title=Adam Beeler Favored for Senate Job|newspaper=Spokane Press|location=Spokane, Washington|date=November 22, 1932|accessdate=March 11, 2016|archive-date=March 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312062848/http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/clipping_II&CISOPTR=35835&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=600&DMHEIGHT=600&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=0&DMOLDSCALE=8.21468&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=%20Adam&DMTHUMB=1&REC=1&DMROTATE=0&x=14&y=3|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Adam Beeler Dies at His Seattle Home|date=March 26, 1947|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19470326&id=x9tXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lvUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7442,2926112&hl=en|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle|location=Spokane, Washington|accessdate=March 11, 2016}}</ref>
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