Ernest R. Feidler
Ernest R. Feidler was a Rear Admiral and Judge Advocate General of the United States Coast Guard.{{cite web|url=https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Notable-People/All/Article/1874718/rear-admiral-ernest-r-feidler/|title=Rear Admiral Ernest R. Feidler|publisher=United States Coast Guard}}
Biography
A native of Superior, Wisconsin, Ernest Reynold Feidler was born on April 15, 1910. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1934 and shortly thereafter took a faculty position at Yale Law School.
After joining the Coast Guard, Feidler served in the Mediterranean Theater and the North African campaign of World War II. He later also served during the Korean War and was named as the acting Judge Advocate General of the Coast Guard. Among his other assignments was being the Coast Guard aide to U.S. Treasury Secretaries John Wesley Snyder and George M. Humphrey.
Feidler retired from the military in 1970 as the highest-ranking member of the United States Coast Guard Reserve. As a civilian, he was an official at the United States Department of the Treasury in a variety of other capacities. In addition, he was the Secretary and the General Consul of the National Gallery of Art.{{cite web|url=https://gargoyle.law.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1169/2014/02/volume4issue2.pdf|title=The Gargoyle, Volume 4, Issue 2|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison}}
Feidler died on September 4, 1976 in Arlington, Virginia.{{cite web|url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GQVZ-6TW/ernest-reynold-feidler-1910-1976|title=Ernest Reynold Feidler|publisher=FamilySearch}} He had married Lydia Keown in 1936, and she died in 1994. The couple are buried together at Arlington National Cemetery.
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