Franz C. Eschweiler
{{Short description|American judge, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = The Honorable
|name = Franz C. Eschweiler
|image = Judge Franz C. Eschweiler.png
|caption =
|office = Justice of the {{nobreak|Wisconsin Supreme Court}}
| term_start = August 30, 1916
| term_end = November 14, 1929
| appointer = Emanuel L. Philipp
| predecessor = William H. Timlin
| successor = Edward T. Fairchild
|office1 = Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge {{nobreak|for the 2nd Circuit, Branch 6}}
| term_start1 = January 1, 1911
| term_end1 = August 30, 1916
| predecessor1 = Branch established
| successor1 = Edward T. Fairchild
|birth_name = Franz Chadbourne Eschweiler
| birth_date = {{birth date|1863|9|6}}
| birth_place = Houghton, Michigan
| death_date = {{death date and age|1929|11|14|1863|9|6}}
| death_place = Madison, Wisconsin
|restingplace = Calvary Cemetery, {{nowrap|Milwaukee, Wisconsin}}
| party =
| spouse = {{unbulleted list
| Ida Caroline Kindt
| (died 1952)
}}
| children = at least 3
| father = Carl Ferdinand Eschweiler
| mother = Hannah Lincoln (Chadbourne) Eschweiler
| relatives = Alexander C. Eschweiler (Brother), Thomas Chadbourne (Cousin)
| religion =
|alma_mater =
}}
Franz Chadbourne Eschweiler (September 6, 1863 – November 14, 1929) was an American lawyer and judge from Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the last 13 years of his life. He previously served five and a half years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Milwaukee County.
Biography
Born in Houghton, Michigan, Eschweiler studied at the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa. Eschweiler was admitted to the bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1889, and practiced law, in Milwaukee. In 1910, he was elected a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge for the newly created 6th Branch of the Milwaukee County-based 2nd Circuit. Rather than running for re-election in 1916, he ran for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, set to be vacated by the pending retirement of justice William H. Timlin. Eschweiler won the spring 1916 election, and was appointed to begin his term early—in August 1916—following Timlin's death. Eschweiler ultimately served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court until his own death in 1929.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/eschweiler.htm |title=Justice Franz Eschweiler, Wisconsin Supreme Court |access-date=2011-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609193431/http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/eschweiler.htm |archive-date=2010-06-09 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1288&keyword=eschweiler |title=Franz Eschweiler, Wisconsin Historical Society |access-date=2011-04-23 |archive-date=2012-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107031345/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1288&keyword=eschweiler |url-status=dead }}
Electoral history
=Wisconsin Circuit Court (1910)=
{{Election box begin | title=1910 Wisconsin Circuit Court, 2nd Circuit Branch 6 election{{cite report|chapter-url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1911| title= The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin|year= 1911 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |chapter= Part III. Election statistics |page= 336 |editor-last=Beck |editor-first=J. D. |accessdate= December 22, 2019 }}}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, April 1910
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Franz C. Eschweiler
|votes = 14,641
|percentage = 35.96
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = John C. Kleist
|votes = 14,325
|percentage = 35.18
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Julius E. Roehr
|votes = 6,877
|percentage = 16.89
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Casimir Gonski
|votes = 4,875
|percentage = 11.97
|change =
}}
{{Election box total
|votes = 40,718
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
=Wisconsin Supreme Court (1916, 1926)=
{{Election box begin | title=1916 Wisconsin Supreme Court election{{cite report|chapter-url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1917| title= The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1917|year= 1917 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |chapter= Election statistics |page= 300 |accessdate= December 27, 2019 }}}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, April 1916
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Franz C. Eschweiler
|votes = 70,380
|percentage = 23.40
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = William J. Turner
|votes = 64,568
|percentage = 21.46
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Ellsworth B. Belden
|votes = 57,670
|percentage = 19.17
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Walter D. Corrigan
|votes = 56,666
|percentage = 18.84
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Chester A. Fowler
|votes = 51,033
|percentage = 16.97
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party =
|candidate = Scattering
|votes = 489
|percentage = 0.16
|change =
}}
{{Election box total
|votes = 300,806
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=1926 Wisconsin Supreme Court election{{cite report|chapter-url= http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1927| title= The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1927|year= 1927 |publisher= State of Wisconsin |editor-last= Holmes |editor-first= Fred L. |location=Madison, Wisconsin|chapter= Election statistics |page= 448 |accessdate= December 27, 2019 }}}}
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, April 6, 1926
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Franz C. Eschweiler (incumbent)
|votes = 293,857
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
{{Election box total
|votes = 293,857
|percentage = 100
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
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Category:People from Houghton, Michigan
Category:Lawyers from Milwaukee
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:Wisconsin circuit court judges
Category:Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court