Background
Wedell, Hugo Theodore was born on January 6, 1890 in Hillsboro, Kansas, United States. Son of Franz E. and Katherine (Goertz) Wedell.
Wedell, Hugo Theodore was born on January 6, 1890 in Hillsboro, Kansas, United States. Son of Franz E. and Katherine (Goertz) Wedell.
Student Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, 1909-1912. Bachelor of Arts, University of Kansas, 1915, Bachelor of Laws, 1920.
Jeanne. Teacher rural school, Marion County, Kansas, 1910-1911, Hill City High School, 1912-1913. Professional baseball player, 1913-1917, part time with Philadelphia National Club, and coached at Haskell Indian School, Lawrence, Kansas. Admitted to Oklahoma bar, 1920, to Kansas bar, 1922.
Practiced in Nowata, Oklahoma, 1920-1922.
Partner, firm Jones & Wedell, Chanute, Kansas, 1922-1929, Wedell & Donaldson, 1933-1935. County attorney Neosho County, Kansas, 1927-1931.
Prosecutor of Finney bond forgeries, 1933. Member commission to revise Kansas Code of Criminal Procedure, 1934.
Appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas to fill vacancy, July 1935, elected to Supreme Court, 1936, 42 and 48.
Served as general director athletics, Camp Crane, Pennsylvania, 1917. Member American Bar Association, American Legion (member Kansas state Executive Committee 4 years). Mason.; Rotarian.
Married Hazel Houston, September 2, 1917.