Thomas E. Fairchild

Thomas Edward Fairchild (born December 25, 1912 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , †  February 12, 2007 in Madison , Wisconsin) was an American lawyer and politician . He held the office of Attorney General of Wisconsin and later became a federal judge .

After graduating from high school, Thomas Fairchild first graduated from Cornell University , where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934 . 1938 followed the Bachelor of Laws at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He then practiced as a lawyer in Portage until 1941 ; then he joined the State Service for the first time as a hearing officer with the Office of Price Administration in Chicago and Milwaukee. From 1945 he again ran a private practice in Milwaukee.

In 1948, Fairchild ran for the office of Attorney General of Wisconsin as a Democrat . He surprisingly won the day after his party had not been able to win a state-wide election for decades. As a result, he tried to catch up with the Democrats and the Republican Party . In 1950 he ran for the first time for the United States Senate , but lost to the Republican incumbent Alexander Wiley . Two years later he ran for election for the second Senate seat of his state and this time defeated Joseph McCarthy . In the meantime, he had taken on the office of federal attorney for the western district of Wisconsin, which he held until 1952. He also worked for a short time in an advisory capacity at the Office of Price Stabilization .

Fairchild was then back to 1957 as a private lawyer in Milwaukee. In 1956, he and other members of the Milwaukee Bar Association acted as legal counsel for alleged communists who had to testify before the Un-American Activities Committee . In the same year he was appointed judge at the Wisconsin Supreme Court . At the State Supreme Court, he succeeded his father Edward T. Fairchild , who swore him in as a judge. In 1966, US President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him as a judge on the federal appeals court for the seventh district. where he succeeded F. Ryan Duffy . After ratification by the United States Senate on January 11, 1966, he served on that court until his senior status on August 31, 1981. From 1975 he chaired there as Chief Justice . He died in Madison in February 2007.

Web links

• Thomas E. Fairchild in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

• Thomas E. Fairchild in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Biography on the Wisconsin Court System

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Times: Thomas Fairchild, 94, Dies; Tried to Unseat McCarthy (February 15, 2007)