Biography:

Attorney, insurance executive. Born– February 25, 1891, Tuscaloosa. Parents– Thomas Waverly and Lula (Ranier) Palmer. Married– Marguerite Ellen Meehan, July 2, 1919, in Chiquicamata, Chile. Children– Six. Education– Marion Institute; University of Alabama, B.A., 1910; Harvard University, LL.B., 1913; Sheldon Travelling Fellowship for legal research and study at the Universidad Central in Madrid. Admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1913 and practiced in Birmingham until 1917. Served with the Alabama National Guard, Mexican Border Service, 1918; attorney for the Chile Exploration Company and U.S. Consular agent in Chiquicamata, 1919-1921; attorney, Standard Oil Company, 1927-1929. During World War II, counsel of the Petroleum Supply Committee for Latin America; director of the Creole Oil Company in Venezuela; president and director of the Ancon Insurance Company and director of the Balboa Insurance Company.

Source:

Current Biography, 1949.

Publication(s):

Gringo Lawyer. Gainesville, Fla.; University of Florida Press, 1956.

Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Spain. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1915.

Joint_Publication(s):

United States Relations With Latin America. New York; National Foreign-Trade Council, 1940.