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  George A. Bartlett served as Nevada's only representative in Congress from 1907 to 1911. He was most famous, however, as a Reno attorney and judge in the 1920s and 1930s. Those were the years when Reno, and Nevada, were known as the "Divorce Capital" of the nation. He advocated "easy" divorce, that is, that an unhappy couple should be able to obtain a quick and uncomplicated divorce. In 1931, he published a book, Men, Women and Conflict, that explained his theories about divorce and marriage. The book was widely read, and "Judgie" Bartlett, as he was often called by his women clients, became well known throughout the country. The Bartlett House, inducted to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, was the home of Judge Bartlett before he was elected a U.S. Congressman for the state of Nevada in 1907. After returning from Washington D.C., Bartlett became a District Attorney and District Court Judge in Washoe County, Nev., where he presided over more than 20,000 divorce cases during Reno’s boom in the 1920s and 30s. |
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