California State Officials Biographies 1911

MAX THELEN

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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RAILROAD COMMISSIONER  
MAX THELEN (Republican) was born in Nebraska, 1880; came to San Diego County, 
California, in 1888. Graduated from National City, San Diego County, public 
schools and high school; worked five years on ranch, entered University of 
California August, 1900; graduated May, 1904; Harvard Law School, 1904 to 1906; 
in office of Olney & Olney, attorneys-at-law, San Francisco, November, 1906, to 
May 1907; assistant attorney and then attorney for Western Pacific Railway 
Company from May 1907, to April, 1911; attorney for California State Railroad 
Commission April, 1911, to date; appointed member of Railroad Commission March 
13, 1912; first secretary and organizer of Berkeley Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican 
Club; vice-president of City Club of Berkeley; member of Commonwealth Club of 
San Francisco, University of California Club, and American Society of 
International Law; lecturer on International Law, University of California; 
joint author with John M. Eshleman of public utilities act.


Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913