Albert Beliveau

[1] Born in Lewiston, Maine, to French-Canadian parents, Beliveau worked in local foundries and mills as a young man, before deciding to pursue a legal career.

[2] In 1906, he quit his job at the mill and went to work for a local law office, where he remained for three years as an office worker, while studying law on his own time.

[3] Beliveau served in the United States Army in France during World War I, "where his French-Canadian heritage and legal experience was helpful in negotiations with the French, who were qualified to receive reparations for their war claims".

[2] In 1935, Governor Louis J. Brann appointed Beliveau to the Maine Superior Court.

[2] He was then appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court by Governor Burton M. Cross, in 1954.