Wallace Mount

Wallace Mount (January 16, 1859 – September 5, 1921) was a justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1901 to 1921.

[1] Mount graduated from the University of Oregon at Eugene in 1883, and moved to Sprague, Washington, in 1886.

He practiced law in Sprague until 1888, when he became prosecuting attorney of Douglas, Adams, Lincoln and Okanogan counties.

When Washington was admitted to statehood he was elected superior judge of those counties, and was re-elected in 1892.

[1] In 1900 Mount was elected to the Washington Supreme Court,[2] serving thereafter until his death.

Justice Wallace Mount in the 1910 court photograph of the Washington Supreme Court.