Background
Shake, Curtis Grover was born on July 14, 1887 in Knox County, Indiana, United States. Son of Daniel W. and Arminda F. (Wyant) Shake.
Shake, Curtis Grover was born on July 14, 1887 in Knox County, Indiana, United States. Son of Daniel W. and Arminda F. (Wyant) Shake.
Born in Harrison Township, Knox County, Indiana, he studied at Vincennes University where he was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity, graduating in 1906.
He was the presiding judge of the IG Farben trial, one of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials held at Nuremberg, Germany after World World War World War II He subsequently earned his Bachelor of Laws from Indiana University in 1910. He served as a State Senator from 1928 to 1946, and in December 1938, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Indiana, where he sat until 1946 and which he presided three times. He was also an Indiana State Senator from 1928 to 1946.
In 1947, he went to Nuremberg in Germany to preside over the IG Farben trial, one of the twelve trials for war crimes the United States. authorities held in their occupation zone after the end of World World War World War II
Member National Railway Labor Panel. Member American, Indiana bar associations, American Judicature Society, American Arbitration Association, Indiana History Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Society Indiana Pioneers, Sigma Pi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Phi, Delta Sigma Rho. Member Christian Church.
Mason, Kiwanian.
Married Ann Szeleczky, June 5, 1911 (deceased. Married second, Alice K. Hubbard, January 2, 1952 (deceased.