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Stimson Bullitt 

Law

            Lawyer in general civil practice in Seattle, 3/49 to date. Superior Court Judge pro tem 1972-75. State Board of Bar Examiners 1973-76. Constitutional Law Drafting Committee, Multi-State Bar Exam, 1974-78. WSBA Special Counsel 1974 to date. For 38 years, partner in firm formerly named Riddell, Williams, Bullitt & Walkinshaw. In later years, mainly appellate litigation.*   

Business

            President: Bullitt Co. 1955-65; King Broadcasting Co. 1961-71; Harbor Properties, Inc.1972-96, Board Chmn. 1996-2001 

Teaching

            Visiting Professor, Univ. of Puget Sound Law School (1983-86) and Univ. of Wash. Law School (1984-85)
            Guest Lecturer in Political Science departments of Univ. of Wash., Univ. of Ore., Univ. of Calif (Berkeley) et al.
            Seminar guest teacher, Yale and Univ. of Calif.  

 Published Work

Books

To Be a Politician, 1959 Doubleday & Co., 1961 Anchor Books, 1977Yale Univ. Press, 1994             Willows Press. Comments: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: "This brilliant and original book should             become a small political classic." David Riesman: "Monsieur Montaigne of Seattle." Wm. S.         White: "...unpretentious, but memorable masterpiece." Richard H. Rovere, The New Yorker:             "...aphoristic brilliance of his style...human and humane, funny, hopeful, exciting,             and...ennobling, as any civilized work must be."

Ancestral Histories of Scott Bullitt & Dorothy Stimson, 1994 Willows Press

River Dark & Bright, 1995 Willows Press

Law Review Articles

Unemployment Compensation in Labor Disputes, 25 U. of Wash. Law Review 50

Deportation as a Denial of Substantive Due Process, 28 U. of Wash Law Rev 205                  

Book Reviews   

The 20^th Century Capitalist Revolution, Adolph Berle, and

American Capitalism, The Concept of Countervailing Power,  John K. Galbraith, 30 U. of W. Law Rev. 261

What I Think, Adlai Stevenson, The Argus 3/24/56

History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Churchill, The Argus  6/2/56    

Holmes-Laski Letters, 31 U of W Law Rev. 308

Law and Lawyers in the United States, Erwin Griswold, King County Bar Journal 7/18/65             

Robert F. Kennedy biog., Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Weekly 9/20/78

The Goldmark Case, William L. Dwyer, The Weekly 6/22/85

Honors & Awards

            Awarded Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel 10/20/44, as member of volunteer landing party in Leyte invasion (LST 452, Red Beach).

            Radio & Television News Directors Assn. (U.S.) annual TV Editorializing Award, 1967   

            B'nai B'rith Man of the Year Award, 1971               

            Nixon's Enemies List, 1972

            Allied Arts: Frederick Anhalt Prize for "Contribution to a Gracious Urban Environment," 1997

            U. of Wash. Law School Established the Stimson Bullitt Professorship of Environmental Law, 5/99 

Civic

National

           Active duty U.S. Navy; served as enlisted man and officer, 1941-45

             In defense of Japanese Americans, solo letter-writing campaign to the members of  Washington State's delegation to Congress, 3/42, and others in 1943  

             Lawyers Committee (U.S.) on Supreme Court Nominations - 1968    Congressional Record, Senate, 9/13/68 and 10/1/68

            Testimony before U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Subcommittee supporting The Campaign Broadcast Reform Act of 1969 “To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide candidates for Congressional offices certain opportunities to purchase broadcast time from television broadcast stations at reduced rates.”

Foreign

               Trustee, AAUN Northwest, 1948-50; UN Day Chairman, 10/22/50

            Wrote and delivered editorials opposing the Vietnam War and had them broadcast over King Broadcasting's stations in Washington and Oregon and published (paid ads) in some newspapers, 12/66.

Government Organization

            Member Executive Committee, Washington Committee on Federal Reorganization, 1949-51

            Trustee, Seattle Municipal League, 1950

            Member, Committee on State Government Organization, 1952-55

            Member, City-County Metropolitan Problems Advisory Committee, 1956-57

            Citizens Research Foundation, Trustee, 1968-81, Council of Advisors,1982 to date. 

Human Rights

            Boxing coach, later Trustee, Dixwell Avenue Community House (New Haven), 1938-41

            Letter in 1941 to Seattle School District supporting a friend’s application for an elementary school teaching job. In response, the Superintendent (Worth McClure, after whom a jr. high was named) wrote that the Seattle school system did not hire Negroes (this although Lucille was well-mannered, well-groomed and had earned her Master’s degree from Yale).

              Sponsor, Wash. State Fair Employment Practice Committee, 1946

            Member, Wash. State Council for a National F.E.P.C., 1947

              Member, Committee for a Washington Law Against Discrimination, 1948

            Member, Sponsors of Christian Friends for Racial Equality, 1951-53

            Member, Washington State Committee for an Omnibus Civil Rights Bill, 1956-57

              Member, Executive Committee, Washington Citizens Committee for Civil rights Legislation, 1959-60

             For the Wash. State Board Against Discrimination, sat on 3-member tribunal, hearing, and ruling on, an employment discrimination case (Markey v. Marketime), 1/19-20/60

            Washington State ACLU, Trustee 1954-56, Advisory Council, 1958-62, committees & cases in later years

            Trustee, Seattle Civic Unity Committee, 1957-60; Member, 1947-60

           Seattle Urban League, Board 1948-55, Vice President, 1952

            Trustee, Industrial Areas Foundation (Saul Alinsky's),1968-71

            In 1971, King Broadcasting Co. employed more African-Americans in non-menial duties (i.e., not janitorial or food-handling) than all the other mass communications companies in the Northwest.

            Member, 20^th Anniversary Dinner Committee for the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, 2/24/71

            Board, Public Defender, 1995-99

            Over the years, as citizen and lawyer, efforts toward civil rights and civil liberties and for making the democratic process work (e.g., litigating defense of campaign finance public disclosure legislation).

Humanitarian & Community

            Vice-Chairman, USO for King County, 1951

            Trustee, Seattle Central Day Care Center, 1951-52

            Chairman, Special Gifts, 1952 Red Cross Campaign, 1952 

            Vice-Chairman, Seattle March of Dimes, 1958 

            Co-Chair, Little School PTA 1960-61

Political

            Elected to King County Charter Commission, 1950;  served 1951-52.

              Democratic nominee for Congress, 1^st District of Washington, 1952

               Delegate at Large, Democratic National Convention, 8/56

            Board, National Committee for an Effective Congress, 1968 - to date.

Environment

                Chairman, Seattle Municipal League Committee for Air Pollution Legislation, 1956, commissioned to seek from the Legislature adoption of its first air pollution legislation – failed.             Trustee, Washington State Parks Foundation, 1972-74

           Some pro bono litigation – Nature Conservancy, Norway Hill v. King County Council et al.             Along Western and 1^st Avenues in downtown Seattle, following a decade of assembling parcels occupied by run-down and empty structures, produced about 1,300 residential units.

Personal

Born Seattle, 6/16/19

Five surviving children; seven surviving grandchildren; three great grandchildren.

Memberships: Bar associations, American Alpine Club, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Other Published Work

Obituaries

Irving Clark, The Weekly 4/12/78 

Jon Goldmark,  The Weekly 11/9/79

Other Pieces

Norman Littell's Diaries, The Weekly 4/13/88

Yale Hope Mission, Yale Daily News  5/9/41

Letter re Japanese-Americans, Norfolk Virginia Pilot 7/29/43

Columns for Navy Commun. School, Harvard Crimson 12/43

Editorials, Green Island News 6/44 

Letter re King County loyalty oaths, Seattle Times 12/15/51

Keynote Address to Washington Young Democrats, Oregon Democrat 1/31/53

Review of  Inherit the Wind, The Argus  9/15/56 

1956 Chicago Convention, Puget Soundings  10/56

The Future American Class System, Horizon  5/59

Less Different Than Alike - Liberals and Conservatives, Puget Soundings 10/19/60 

Ethics in Communication, Puget Soundings  6/62

Once Upon a Time, Puget Soundings 2/64

The High Costs of TV Campaigns, Television Quarterly 2/66  

TV in Nonpresidential Campaigns, Congressional Record  2/3/66

Viet Nam Editorial broadcast KING-TV, KGW-TV, KREM-

            TV, 12/20/66;  Seattle Times ad 12/23/66 

U.S. Senate Testimony re Campaign Broadcast Reform Act of 1969, Commerce Committee Report 10/22/69

What To Do About Our Mountain Wilderness, The Wild Cascades  12/70

The Wilderness Dilemma, Pacific Search 5/74 

Guidelines for Handling an Appeal, Washington State Bar News 7/76  

Lawyers Are Not a Plague, State Bar News 12/76      

Must We Endure Politicians, Open Spaces 2/98 

                                                            Sports

            Boxing: Yale University boxing champion; amateur bouts in New York City and Connecticut and main events in Western Washington, 1940-41.  "Gold Braid Champion" of Green Island (Solomons), 5/44.

            Ski Racing: 1975 National Veterans Championships, Big Sky, Montana, 2^nd Place in Downhill, Men over 48.

            Sailing: 1992-93, as skipper, sailed 36' sloop from Marbella, Spain to Fort Lauderdale

            Mountaineering: 1970-02, peaks and rock climbing