Boswell, H. James, American Blue Book Western Washington, Seattle, Lowman and
Hanford Co., 1922. p. 44.

F. D. OAKLEY, of Tacoma, represents one of the largest corporations in the
country, in Tacoma.  Mr. Oakley is a native of Illinois and was born in 1876.
It was in 1904 that he was granted admission to the bar.  Mr. Oakley is
attorney for the great Stone & Webster interests in Tacoma and vicinity and is
unquestionably one of the best capacitated lawyers in that city.  Mr. Oakley
has appeared in many of the most important cases filed, practicing in all the
courts.  State and Federal.  I regard him as one of the most forceful, yet
brief and convincing speakers in the State of Washington, and the success with
which he has met is the most conclusine patience with a sham, abhors a
spretender, and defends the interests of his clients upon the broad basis of
his splendid knowledge of the law.  Mr. Oakley, in 1919, married Miss Elva
Donohue, and they have one child, a girl.  He is a member of the Union club,
Tacoma Country club, Commercial club, Shiners, of which he is the present
Potentate of Afifi temple of Tacoma; the Pacific Coast Claim Agents'
association, and the county and state bar associations.

Submitted by: Judy Bivens

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