Harris Kenneth Wangelin

Education and career

Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Wangelin received an Associate of Arts degree from Iberia Academy and Junior College in 1932 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1936. He was in private practice in Van Buren, Missouri from 1936 to 1937. He was an adjuster for the Maryland Casualty Company in Missouri from 1937 to 1942. He was a Lieutenant (SG) in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1942 to 1945. He then returned to private practice in Poplar Bluff, Missouri until 1970.[1]

Federal judicial service

On December 8, 1970, Wangelin was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a joint seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri vacated by Juge Roy Winfield Harper. Wangelin was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 17, 1970, and received his commission on December 22, 1970. He served as Chief Judge of the Eastern District from 1979 to 1983. He assumed senior status on May 10, 1983, serving in that capacity until his death on June 10, 1987, in Poplar Bluff.[1]

gollark: The word for something which works without you knowing why is a "black box".
gollark: No, lambda calculus is just working on abstract lambda thingies, it's a simple model for computation which is also kind of useless.
gollark: Meanwhile, GPT-3, OpenAI's latest GPT text generation thing, has *175 billion* parameters and uses, what, tens of gigabytes of memory?
gollark: No, lambda calculus is a relatively simple model you can understand fairly easily.
gollark: And with neural networks, you don't actually know *how* the network does its job, just that you feed in pixels and somehow get classification data out.

References
  1. Harris Kenneth Wangelin at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

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Preceded by
Roy Winfield Harper		 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri
1970–1983		 Succeeded by
Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr.
Preceded by
James Hargrove Meredith		 Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
1979–1983		 Succeeded by
John Francis Nangle
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