Hamer Harold Budge (November 21, 1910 – July 22, 2003) was an American attorney politician. He was a five-term congressman from

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and later chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Early life and education

Born in Pocatello, Idaho, Budge was the youngest of eight children of a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, Alfred Budge (1868–1951) and Ella Hoge Budge (1875–1970, m.1892). His father was appointed to the

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in November 1914, and the family relocated from Pocatello to

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. Justice Budge retired from the state's highest court 34 years later in December 1948, at age 80. Hamer Budge attended public schools in Boise and the

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in Caldwell. He transferred to Stanford University in

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, and graduated in 1933, then attended the

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Career

After graduating from law school in 1936, went into private practice in Boise. He was a member of the state legislature from 1939 through 1941 and in 1949 and served in the

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during

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, from 1942 through 1945, leaving as a

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U.S. House of Representatives

When Republican Congressman John Sanborn chose to pursue the U.S. Senate seat rather than a third term in 1950, it left the 2nd district seat open. Both nominees were from Boise, and Budge defeated Democratic state senator James Hawley in the

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election to become the first

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to represent Idaho in either house of Congress. He served in the House for ten years; an attempt at a sixth term came up short in

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, with a loss to 31-year-old Democrat Ralph Harding of Blackfoot. Budge voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and

Securities and Exchange Commission

When his fifth congressional term ended in 1961, Budge became a judge in the Third Judicial District of Idaho in Boise. In 1964, he was appointed to the

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(SEC) by President

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; he was chairman of the SEC in the

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administration from 1969 until he resigned on January 2, 1971. Budge then served as the president of a mutual funds group in

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until he retired in 1978. He was a member of the

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, and

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Personal life

He died in 2003 at age 92 in Arizona and was buried in Idaho at Cloverdale Cemetery in west Boise.Hamer Harold Budge (1910 - 2003) - Find A Grave Memorial
/ref> His wife and parents are also buried there.

References

External links

SEC Historical.org
– Chairman Budge
Budge's resignation letter to President Nixon
– November 1970

– Hamer H, Budge * {{DEFAULTSORT:Budge, Hamer H. 1910 births 2003 deaths Stanford University alumni University of Idaho alumni Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Idaho state court judges Republican Party members of the Idaho House of Representatives People from Pocatello, Idaho Politicians from Scottsdale, Arizona Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Idaho 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American judges University of Idaho College of Law alumni Nixon administration personnel