Thomas A. McBride

Thomas Allen McBride (November 15, 1847 – September 9, 1930) was an American attorney and judge in Oregon.

[1] One of Thomas’ younger brothers George W. McBride served as a United States senator, while an older brother John R. McBride served in the house and as Idaho’s territorial chief justice.

[1] Thomas attended school in Vancouver, Washington, where he also read law, and then spent some time at what is now Linfield College.

[4] On May 1, 1909, Oregon Governor Frank W. Benson appointed McBride to the state supreme court to fill the vacancy created when justice Robert S. Bean resigned.

[6] McBride first married on February 7, 1874, to Mary E. Merrill of Columbia County, Oregon.