Alfred Budge

Budge had limited opportunities for schooling, attending four or six months each year the common schools of Bear Lake county, and at the age of fifteen became a student in the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, where he spent three years.

After three years in Germany, he was arrested in Nuremberg and convicted of "preaching a faith hostile to the government"; while his appeal was pending before the supreme court at Munich, he learned that the conviction was likely to be upheld, and he "he quietly left the country and reentered Switzerland".

[3] In 1894 he was elected district attorney of the fifth judicial district, then comprising, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont, Lemhi, and Oneida counties, and in November, 1898, he was elected prosecuting attorney for Bear Lake county, an office which he filled for two years.

[1] On November 28, 1914, Governor John Haynes appointed Budge to a seat on the state supreme court.

[1] Budge was thereafter repeatedly reelected, serving for 34 years before retiring on December 30, 1948, due to a back injury.