Claude C. McColloch

McColloch was born in Red Bluff, California, to Mary Elizabeth McColloch (née Wooddy) and her husband Charles Henry McColloch on January 14, 1888.[1] When McColloch was two years old, the family relocated to Oregon where he received his education through high school in Portland.[1] McColloch entered Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1904 and attended until 1907 when he left for the University of Chicago Law School.[1] He graduated from law school in 1909 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree and was admitted to the Oregon bar in May of that year.[1] Returning to Oregon, he began private legal practice in Eastern Oregon in Baker City.[2] McColloch remained in Baker until 1913, and served in the Oregon State Senate after winning election to a four-year term in 1910.[2] A Democrat, he represented Baker County.[3] In 1913, he returned to Portland where he remained in private practice until 1926.[2] While in Portland he served on the Port of Portland commission from 1922 to 1924.[2] In 1926, McColloch moved to Southern Oregon where he set up private practice in Klamath Falls.[2] He remained in that city until 1937, and served as chairman of Oregon's Democratic Party in 1936.[2]

On August 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated McColloch for a position on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon to replace the deceased Judge John Hugh McNary.[2] McColloch was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 17, 1937, and joined the Portland-based court on August 20, 1937, after receiving his commission. He served as Chief Judge from 1954 to 1958. He took senior status on December 31, 1958.[2] McColloch died on September 30, 1959.[2]