Frank Gordon Theis

{{Short description|American judge}}

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| office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas

| term_start = July 31, 1981

| term_end = January 17, 1998

| office1 = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas

| term_start1 = 1977

| term_end1 = 1981

| predecessor1 = Wesley E. Brown

| successor1 = Earl Eugene O'Connor

| office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas

| term_start2 = March 4, 1967

| term_end2 = July 31, 1981

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| appointer2 = Lyndon B. Johnson

| predecessor2 = Seat established by 80 Stat. 75

| successor2 = Sam A. Crow

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| birth_name = Frank Gordon Theis

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|06|26}}

| birth_place = Yale, Kansas

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University of Michigan Law School (J.D.)

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Frank Gordon Theis (June 26, 1911 – January 17, 1998) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.

Education and career

Born in Yale, Kansas, Theis received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1933 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1936. He was in private practice in Arkansas City, Kansas from 1936 to 1937, 1939 to 1950, and 1952 to 1967. He was an attorney for the Kansas Tax Commission from 1937 to 1939. He was deputy county attorney of Cowley County, Kansas from 1942 to 1946. He was chief counsel of the Office of Price Stabilization for Kansas from 1950 to 1952. He was city attorney of Arkansas City from 1955 to 1959.{{FJC Bio|2360|nid=1388676|name=Frank Gordon Theis}}

=Senate campaign=

Theis was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the Kansas 1960 United States Senate elections.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}}

Federal judicial service

Theis was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 16, 1967, to the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, to a new seat created by 80 Stat. 75. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 2, 1967, and received his commission on March 4, 1967. He served as Chief Judge from 1977 to 1981. He assumed senior status on July 31, 1981. Theis served in that capacity until his death on January 17, 1998.

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  • {{FJC Bio|2360|nid=1388676|name=Frank Gordon Theis}}

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Category:1911 births

Category:1998 deaths

Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas

Category:United States district court judges appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:20th-century American lawyers

Category:University of Kansas alumni

Category:University of Michigan Law School alumni

Category:People from Crawford County, Kansas

Category:Kansas lawyers