Draft:Valentine Gideon

Valentine Gideon (January 11, 1859 – February 11, 1951) was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1917 to 1929, briefly interrupted in 1927, and was chief justice from 1925 to 1927.

Gideon was appointed to a newly created seat when the court was expanded to five members.

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In 1889, Gideon married Elizabeth C. Lang, with whom he had one son. Elizabeth died five months before Gideon. Gideon died in a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 92.