Judge Fred A. Wiecking

Frederick A. Wiecking was born in Bluffton, Indiana on August 15, 1892. During World War I he served as a Lieutenant at Camp Hancock, Georgia. He received his law degree from Indiana University in 1919 and did postgraduate work in Osnabruck, Germany. He was admitted to the bar in Wells County in 1920, the same year he married Marie White, and practiced in the city of Bluffton for the next 12 years. 

In 1932, Judge Wiecking moved to Hartford City to form the firm of Emshwiller and Wiecking. 

Governor Harry G. Leslie appointed Judge Wiecking, a Democrat, as Assistant Attorney General of Indiana in 1933. In 1934, he graduated to the post of Public Counselor of Indiana following the resignation of Sherman Minton during Minton’s successful run for the United States Senate. 

Governor Paul V. McNutt appointed Judge Wiecking to the Indiana Appellate Court on November 4, 1935 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Ralph Smith. He served on the court until he died less than a year later.

At the time of his death, Judge Wiecking was an Ordinance Major on the staff of the Indiana National Guard. Active in American Legion activities, he was the Indiana State Commander in 1929. He was a member of the Elks, a former president of the Kiwanis Club, a member of the Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, the Masons, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

He died suddenly at age 43, on July 28, 1936, while playing golf at the Highland Golf and Country Club in Indianapolis. 

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