Bertram Stetson Varian Sr. (May 12, 1872 – June 8, 1963) was a justice of the Idaho Supreme Court from 1929 to 1933.
Born in Unionville, Pershing County, Nevada,[1] Varian attended the University of Michigan, and was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1895, and the Idaho State Bar in 1899. He served as a judge for the 7th Judicial District of Idaho from 1919 to 1929, when he was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho, to fill his unfinished term of Herman H. Taylor who had recently died.[2] Varian served until 1933,[1] [3] when he was he defeated for reelection by former Justice William McKendree Morgan, who was returned to the court as part of an anti-incumbent wave spurred by the Great Depression.[4]
Varian had a son, Bertram S. Varian Jr., who was a naval aviator in the United States Navy during World War II, and who was killed in the Battle of Midway and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.[5]
Varian died in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, and was interred at Cloverdale Memorial Park, in Boise.[6]