Howard Wiest
| Howard Wiest | |
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| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan Justice of the Supreme Court |
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In office 1921 – 1945 |
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| Nominated by | Alex Groesbeck |
| Preceded by | Flavius L. Brooke |
| Succeeded by | Leland W. Carr |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 24, 1864 Washington Township, Macomb County, Michigan |
| Died | September 16, 1945 (aged 81) Lansing, Michigan |
| Occupation | lawyer, jurist |
Howard Wiest (February 24, 1864 – September 16, 1945) was an American jurist. Although he neither graduated from high school nor attended law school, he read law, became Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and went on to be "the Dean" of all Michigan jurists.
Born in Washington Township, Macomb County, Michigan, to Jacob and Elizabeth Wiest, he had eight siblings. He attended school in Pontiac, Michigan, but "never finished high school." Wiest left school and worked as a machinist, and never attended law school.
He then moved to Detroit, Michigan, read law at the Detroit law firm of Atkinson & Atkinson, and was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1885. He was appointed commissioner of the Wayne County Michigan Circuit Courts by Governor Cyrus Luce. In April, 1890 he started ten years in private practice in Ingham County.
On December 19, 1888, he married Cora Newman of Pontiac, and they had two children: Lucille Wiest and Theodosia Milkton (of Baltimore, Maryland).
He was a Republican.
From 1900 to 1921, Wiest served as an Ingham County, Michigan, 30th Judicial Circuit Court judge, which occasioned him to hear many important cases involving the State of Michigan.
His name first appears at 213 Michigan Reports 95. He served in a judicial capacity for 44 continuous years.
In 1913 he delivered a paper entitled "Districting the Judicial Circuits" to the State Bar of Michigan.
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