Roy Wilford Riegle

{{short description|American politician}}

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{{COI|date=May 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = R. Wilford Riegle

| image = Roy Wilford Riegle - KC - 1976.jpg

| caption = 52nd Triennial Conclave, Chicago, IL{{cite web|url=http://www.knightstemplar.org/pgeo/mepgm.html/|website=knightstemplar.org|title=Knights Templar reference|accessdate=5 January 2018}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|04|27}}

| birth_place = Lyons, Kansas, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|02|02|1896|04|27}}

| death_place = Emporia, Kansas, U.S.

| state_senate = Kansas

| district = 15th

| term_start = January 12, 1953

| term_end = January 9, 1961

| preceded = Bob George

| succeeded = Wade Alexander Myers

| state_senate1 = Kansas

| district1 = 22nd

| term_start1 = January 14, 1941

| term_end1 = 1943

| preceded1 = William Carlisle Harris

| succeeded1 = Selleck Warren

| state_house2 = Kansas

| district2 = 45th

| term_start2 = January 9, 1933

| term_end2 = January 14, 1941

| preceded2 = Edward Herbert Rees

| succeeded2 = Felix Bruno Ross

| resting_place = Leavenworth National Cemetery

| education = Washburn University (BA, LLB, MA)
Kansas State Normal School

| party = Republican Party

| spouse = Keith Maria Roberts

| children =

| allegiance = {{flag|United States}}

| branch = {{flag|United States Army}}

| battles = World War I

}}

Roy Wilford Riegle (April 27, 1896 – February 2, 1988), known as Wilford, was an American attorney, politician and Member of the Kansas House of Representatives.

He met his future wife, Keith, while attending Kansas State Normal School during the 1910s. Before marriage, however, he was called to duty during World War I as part of the United States Army in Company L, 137th Infantry, 35th Division.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Aside from serving as the longest-practicing attorney in Lyons County, Wilford was a Republican member of both the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate for multiple terms.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Wilford was an initiated member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.{{cite web |title=Distinguished Alumni |url=https://www.tke.org/about/distinguished-alumni |publisher=Tau Kappa Epsilon |access-date=November 28, 2023}} In 1973, he took office as the Grand Master of the Knights Templar (Freemasonry) both nationally and overseas.

After a series of strokes and declining health, Colonel Riegle died on February 2, 1988.{{cite web|title=Roy Wilford Riegle papers|url=http://www.kshs.org/dart/units/view/43623|accessdate=20 September 2012}}

style="margin: 0 auto;" | File:Law Office @ The Palace Building, Commercial Street, Emporia, KS.jpg | File:Supervision on the Military Base in Juneau, AK during World War 2.JPG | File:Jo Anna Scherrer (Daughter) & Keith Maria Roberts (Wife).jpg