Frederick Wheeler Hinckley

Background

Hinckley, Frederick Wheeler was born on May 26, 1878 in Princeton, Maine, United States. Son of Adelbert E. and Sarah J. (McLaughlin) Hinckley.

Education

Educated Eastern Maine Conference Seminary, Bucksport, Maine. Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville, Maine.

Career

Admitted to Maine bar, 1901, and practiced at Calais 2 years, at Portland, since 1903. Senior member Hinckley & Hinckley, 1912-1926, Hinckley, Hinckley & Shesong, since 1926. Attorney in rate case versus Cumberland County Power & Light Company, 1918, for government in state prison investigation, 1925.

Chief counsel for United States Senator Arthur R. Gould in handling his case before Committee on Privileges and Elections, United States Senate, in which an attempt was made to expel him from the Senate. Mayor of South Portland, 1919-1920. Member Maine House of Representatives, 1919-1922, Senate, 1923-1926, inclusive.

Member Legal Advisory Board, World War.

Politics

Government is ordained by God to reward good and to punish evil.

Views

Just as a human body contains different limbs and organs that depend on each other, so members of a Christian society should be close and caring enough to feel each other's pain and delight.

Membership

Member of the board of trustees Juvenile Institutions of Maine, 1914-1919 (president, 1913-1916). Mason. Designer, owner and builder Sylvan-Site, a $5,000,000 model community of 200 homes in South Portland Heights.

Connections

Married Blanche Richards, October 23, 1907.

Father:

Adelbert E. Hinckley

Mother:

Sarah J. (McLaughlin) Hinckley

Spouse:

Blanche Richards