Emmert L. Wingert

{{Short description|American lawyer and judge. Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Honorable

| name = Emmert L. Wingert

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|office = Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

| term_start = September 5, 1956

| term_end = January 1, 1959

| appointer = Walter J. Kohler, Jr.

| predecessor = Edward J. Gehl

| successor = William H. Dieterich

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|birth_name = Emmert Laurson Wingert

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|4|2}}

| birth_place = Mount Carroll, Illinois

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|02|1|1899|4|2}}

| death_place = Wisconsin

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| restingplace = Forest Hill Cemetery
Madison, Wisconsin

| party = Republican

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| Beloit College

| Harvard Law School

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Emmert Laurson Wingert (April 2, 1899 – February 1, 1971) was an American lawyer and judge from Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and executive counsel to Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr.

Biography

Born in Mount Carroll, Illinois, Wingert graduated from Harvard Law School. He practiced law in Madison, Wisconsin, worked in office of the Wisconsin Attorney General, and was executive counsel to Walter J. Kohler, Sr., when he was Governor of Wisconsin. During Kohler's term, Wingert represented Wisconsin at the National Conference on Uniform State Laws. Years later, under Kohler's son, Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., Wingert was Vice Chairman of the Governor's Commission on the Study of Retirement Systems, and, after the death of Justice Edward J. Gehl, in 1956, Governor Kohler appointed Wingert to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Wingert was defeated in his first Supreme Court election, in April 1958, and left office at the end of his term, on January 1, 1959.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/wingert.htm |title=Justice Emmert Wingert, Wisconsin Supreme Court |access-date=2011-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721073605/http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/wingert.htm |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}'Wisconsin Blue Book 1958, biographical sketch of Justice Emmert Wingert, pg. 9

Electoral history

{{Election box begin | title=1958 Wisconsin Supreme Court election{{cite report|url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1960 |title= The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1960 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |chapter= Wisconsin state party platforms and elections |year= 1960 |editor-last1= Toepel |editor-first1= M.G. |editor-last2=Kuehn |editor-first2= Hazel L. |page= 701 |accessdate= November 23, 2019 }}}}

| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, April 1, 1958

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Nonpartisan politician

|candidate = William H. Dieterich

|votes = 232,955

|percentage = 52.43%

|change = +30.02%

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Nonpartisan politician

|candidate = Emmert L. Wingert (incumbent)

|votes = 211,319