death_place death_date religion birth_place party office birth_date term spouse article_title name
wickenburg , arizona 30 may 1960 the mormon -rrb- church of jesus christ of latter-day saints -lrb- st. johns , apache , arizona democrat justice 1957-1958 arizona supreme court 1947-1960 chief justice 1951-1952 & 20 january 1891 1946-1960 louise lee levi stewart udall
 levi stewart udall
levi stewart udall

levi stewart udall -lrb- january 20 , 1891 -- may 30 , 1960 -rrb- was a u.s. lawyer who served as chief justice of the arizona supreme court .
he was a member of the udall political family .
born and raised in arizona , he was the son of david king udall and eliza stewart udall .
he was named after his grandfather , levi stewart .
he was a member of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints .
in 1914 he married louisa lee , a granddaughter of john d. lee and jacob hamblin .
they would later have six children .
he passed the arizona bar exam in 1922 , and was admitted to the bar , without having earned a law degree -lrb- a common practice in those days -rrb- .
later that year he succeeded his father as stake president of the st. johns stake , a position he held until 1945 .
in 1922 , he lost a bid to be elected as clerk to the arizona superior court .
he was defeated by his older brother john hunt udall .
in 1946 he was elected to the arizona supreme court , and remained a justice of that court from 1947 until his death .
in 1948 udall wrote the majority opinion of the arizona state supreme court granting native americans living on reservations the right to vote .
from 1951-1952 and 1957-1958 he served as the chief justice of that court .
in 1960 he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from the university of arizona .
he died on may 30 of that year .
