Biography
Briggs was born on April 26, 1881, in Kansas and came to Los Angeles in 1923; In 1925 he was working at the Elliot-Horne Company as an attorney and was hired at Polytechnic High School to teach law at night. In 1929 he was on the executive committee of the Los Angeles Municipal League, and in August of that year he was the chairman of a meeting in Trinity Auditorium that urged the pardoning of Tom Mooney, who was serving a life term in San Quentin Prison for the bombing of a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco in 1916.
By 1932 he was dean of the Metropolitan University law college, Briggs was the leader of the Ethical Society of Los Angeles in 1953.
He died on July 25, 1969, in Los Angeles and was survived by his wife, Leah; a daughter, Mary White of San Francisco; and two sisters, Rena Briggs and Gertrude Pefley, both of Parsons, Kansas. The remains were sent to Parsons for service and interment.
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